{"id":130,"date":"2020-02-28T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/?p=130"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:47:57","slug":"research-grant-to-improve-quality-and-safety-of-aged-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/2020\/02\/28\/research-grant-to-improve-quality-and-safety-of-aged-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Research grant to improve quality and safety of aged care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Flinders researcher has won a major health grant by the Hospital Research Foundation to improve the health and wellbeing of the aged care community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jyoti Khadka is aiming to improve the quality and safety of aged care by providing essential cost estimates for health care policy makers and aged care recipients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The work will help to facilitate interventions which can minimise incidents of poor quality and unsafe care, reduce system expenditures and maximise the health and wellbeing of Australia&#8217;s ageing community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Khadka joins fellow Flinders reseacher Professor Geraint Rogers in receiving a highly competitive research grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalresearch.com.au\/\">Hospital Research Foundation<\/a> to help fight deadly diseases and improve the health and wellbeing of the community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Khadka is an optometrist by training, working in the Flinders optometry space for seven years before moving on to healthy ageing, health economics, health services and aged care research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My work surrounds around quality of life, eye diseases and frailty, plus I focus on improving aged care and also health care services for older Australians particularly those who are using aged care services,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Hospital Research Foundation-funded project is titled <em>Improving the quality and safety of aged care:\u00a0\u201cHealth Economics Implications of Monitoring Safety and Quality of Aged Care in Australia\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Khadka says there is an &#8220;urgent need&#8221; to improve and benchmark quality and safety in aged care, as pointed towards in the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Interim Report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hospital Research Foundation grant will leverage the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) big data resources to investigate the health economic implications of such benchmarks,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is connected to Dr Khadka&#8217;s other position at ROSA, SAHMRI, and is in collaboration with Caring Futures Institute research lead Professor Julie Ratcliffe, who is Dr Khadka&#8217;s supervisor and one of the co-investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Maria Inacio, director of ROSA, and Professor Steve Wesselingh, director of SAHMRI, are also co-investigators.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2020\/02\/Kyoti_Khadka-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2020\/02\/Kyoti_Khadka-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/caring-futures-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2020\/02\/Kyoti_Khadka.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Jyoti Khadka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Flinders researcher has won a major health grant by the Hospital Research Foundation to improve the health and wellbeing of the aged care community. 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