Last week I attended a national Embedding Oral Health in Aged Care: An implementation research workshop, hosted by Lyndal Pritchard as part of her PhD - a fantastic achievement! @katechurruca.bsky.social presented on changing culture in Australian RACFs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39299792/

Excited to collaborate with @katechurruca.bsky.social on our new book chapter: Making a Case for Q Methodology in Health Service Evaluations in the Handbook of Health Services Evaluation link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social

"Co-designing M-OHAT: Modified Oral Health Assessment Tool for aged care" at #IADR2025 in Barcelona. We collaborated with staff, residents and family to co-design the M-OHAT which aims to identify oral health problems and facilitate timely referral to dental services in residential aged care.

Frailty & Ageing in Prisons How does incarceration affect older adults? Join the AFN Geriatric Medicine Seminar to explore challenges and solutions for better care. 📅 6 May 2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:00 AEST | 📍 Online 👉 Register: bit.ly/41rPkPu #GeriatricMedicine #Frailty #Ageing #JusticeHealth #AFN

🚨New research alert! We identified and categorised goals of frail older people living with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease. Participants most frequently focused their goals on function, physical health, social engagement, and leisure. @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social

Our four Frailty-ADD CRE Seed Grant recipients presenting at the #AFNsummit2025 @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social These grants support early career researchers and health professionals to conduct research aiming to improve outcomes for frail patients in hospitals. www.afn.org.au/frailty-add-...

Last week I presented @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social’s research on co-designing frailty education with consumers, caregivers, students and healthcare professionals. This work has informed the design of 12 digital education modules which we are currently building! #ASBHM2025 @uqchsr.bsky.social

Join our team at @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social! We have a Level A/B position focused on frailty, co-design, health education, health promotion, and qualitative/mixed-methods research. shorturl.at/WA5fw

Join our team at the Australian Frailty Network! I'm looking for a PhD student to work with me on on a co-design project that aims to empower Australians to prevent and manage frailty through digital education. PhD scholarship available: shorturl.at/h1gSP

Great article on aged care dashboard co-design: 🔹medications, appointments, health tracker, etc 🔹jargon-free terms 🔹use color for urgency and importance 🚦 🔹large font, strong contrast 🔹use graphs sparingly and have text explanations 🔹limit the use of symbols #Accessibility #AgedCare

🚨New research! Aged care clients (community + residential) and family members shared their design ideas and preferences for co-designing a new aged care digital dashboard of integrated client data, real-time predictive risk models and decision support. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I'm so grateful to work with such a wonderful group of people at @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social where our vision is to deliver a national response to frailty and help all Australians age well. Last night our team were awarded UQ's Faculty of Med Collaborators of the Year Award! @uqchsr.bsky.social

Excited to announce the 2024 Frailty-ADD CRE Seed Grant recipients! 🌟 Dr Nicola Straiton – Frailty Clinical Champion in AU & SE. 🌟 Melinda Williamson – Economic evaluation of early frailty services in EDs. They’ll be presenting at AFN Summit 2025! #ResearchGrant #Frailty #AFNSummit2025

One of the projects I am very proud to be involved with is the Florence Project at UQ: eecs.uq.edu.au/florence We have been codesigning technologies to support communication and participation with people living with dementia and their care partners. #dementia #AssistiveTechnology

A great consumer session at Health Translation Qld 5th National HREC Conference! I presented with @dr-am-young.bsky.social and our consumer collaborators Anja Christoffersen and Mary Denver on the Australian Frailty Network's consumer collaboration and navigating challenges in ethics applications.

'Consumer-focus' and 'Collaboration' are two of our core values at the Australian Frailty Network. www.afn.org.au/vision-and-v... Hear from two of our members about their collaboration on the the co-design of a co-design framework. bit.ly/3Zndf2F

🚨New research We used Q-methodology to explore what allied health services are most important to consumers and their expectations of these services in residential aged care. Q-methodology is a mixed method using card sorting/ranking to identify viewpoints; the systematic study of subjectivity.

Ageing and frailty: Standards for the care of older people. Health Care Improvement Scotland. www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scot/publications...

I'm excited to announce a fully funded domestic (Australian) #PhD opportunity to work with me and the team at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre. Read more here study.uq.edu.au/study-option... Scholarship includes: living stipend of $35,000 pa tax free & tuition fees.

Introducing the Australian Frailty Network (AFN). This paper presents the establishment of AFN, including the AFN's vision, values, purpose, research activities, action plans, education, and consumer engagement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #frailty

🚨 Special issue ✨ Protocol for the co-design of a Modified Oral Health Assessment (M-OHAT) in residential aged care. The M-OHAT will facilitate the identification of poor oral health in RACFs and timely referral to dental treatment. www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12...

Hi everyone, I’m a health services researcher focusing on frailty, education and co-design. Looking to connect with those interested in: #frailty #co-design #codesign #co-production #coproduction #digitalhealth #healtheducation #agedcare #qualitativeresearch #q-methodology #qmethodology