Collaboration translates research into practical help for palliative carers
How can we best support unpaid carers when the person they are providing care for is dying? This was the challenging question confronting a national project […]
Caring Futures Institute aged care research extended to diverse communities...
Flinders University research fellow Dr Claire Hutchinson has been awarded an inaugural Hal Kendig Research Development Grant to extend her work on measuring quality of life in aged care to multicultural […]
Carer feedback needed to help adapt global dementia care support program
The Caring Futures Institute is calling for informal and professional carers of people living with dementia to help test a new online dementia education and skill training program for carers. […]
Caring Futures Institute awards inaugural accelerator grants
Ten early and mid-career researchers have been granted up to $4000 each as part of the Caring Futures Institute’s 2019 Accelerator Grant Scheme. The external funding […]
Caring Futures Institute statement on Royal Commission into Aged Care Quali...
The interim report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety describes a system that must be urgently changed, with systemic failures in access to services, substandard care […]
Caring Futures Institute recognised for consumer engagement
The Caring Futures Institute has been nominated for the ‘Partnering with consumers in research’ award at the inaugural Health Consumers Alliance of SA Inc. Consumer Engagement […]
iSupport for Dementia in the spotlight for National Carers Week
Research at the Caring Futures Institute is helping provide greater support for family carers living with dementia – a condition affecting more than 400,000 Australians. Leader […]
Revolutionary eye scan developed to detect autism earlier
A Caring Futures Institute research study has developed a promising new method of detecting autism through a simple eye scan, which could identify the condition years […]
Frailty videos showcase need for wider acceptance
People of any age can be affected by frailty, according to new research at Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute. Too often regarded as an affliction that […]