Evaluation of Lack of Care at Aged Care Centers in Ringwood.

Question: Discuss about the Health of Aged Care. Answer: Industry partner The industry partner in this research will be Nexy home for the elderly. This institution is involved in the provision of community based health care services (Chesler et al., 2015). The most common customers in this facility are the patients suffering from terminal illnesses. Nexy home for the elderly has about one hundred and twenty employees who work day and night in shifts to ensure that the aged people receive high quality care. The relationship between us and this home for the aged people is that it is within our locality and my parents used to work there before the retired from palliative care services. Overarching problem The Nexus home for the aged has been receiving complaints that most of their clients do not receive care. This is despite the patients paying dearly for the aged care services. As a result, most patients suffered serious old age symptoms while others succumbed to the illnesses associated with aging such as chronic diseases. As such, this research proposal aims at finding out the reason for lack of care at Nexy home for the aged. Moreover, this research will determine the specific aged care needs of the patients that they feel that they are not properly attended to as they would wish. Overarching research aim The main aim of this research will be to ensure that the aged people in Ringwood live an improved and long life. Consequently this research will ensure that the aged people suffer less pain when dealing with chronic diseases that come along with aging (Parker et al., 2013). Research question Why are more aged patients complaining about lack of care? What forms of accommodation systems are available for the aged care? What is the proportion of the aged care patients in relation to the available ratio of the staff? Are the aged care services payments or fees affordable to almost all patients? The guiding research question What are the probable causes of lack of aged care for the aged people at Ringwood? Data needs The data for this research proposal will include carrying out of survey and interviews among the aged patients. The interviews will be in the form of questionnaires with open ended questions (Sundler et al., 2014). The questions will cover all aspects of aged care as well as the existing problems in aged care services provision. Moreover, differently structured questionnaires will be administered to the aged care professionals in order to evaluate their level of service delivery. Literature review The keywords that will be used for the search of relevant academic materials in this research will include: aged care (Durvasula, 2014), service delivery, quality of service, level of satisfaction, causes of lack of aged care, accommodation facilities and modes and levels of aged care delivery. Literature review (articles) Edwards, C.A., McDonnell, C. and Merl, H., 2013. An evaluation of a therapeutic garden's influence on the quality of life of aged care residents with dementia. Dementia, 12(4), pp.494-510. Hillen, J.B., Vitry, A. and Caughey, G.E., 2017. Evaluating medication?related quality of care in Australian aged care: a role for collaborative health services. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 47(1), pp.63-66. References Chesler, J., McLaren, S., Klein, B. and Watson, S., 2015. The effects of playing Nintendo Wii on depression, sense of belonging and social support in Australian aged care residents: a protocol study of a mixed methods intervention trial. BMC geriatrics, 15(1), p.106. Durvasula, S., 2014. Sunlight exposure and vitamin D status of older people in residential aged care. Parker, D., Tuckett, A., Clifton, K., Reymond, L., Israel, F., McAnelly, K., Greeve, K., Glaetzer, K., Jenkin, P., Prior, T. and Walker, H., 2013. Palliative care case conference (PCCC) in residential aged care (RAC): views of general practitioners. In APCC2013: 12th Australian Palliative Care Conference. Palliative Care: everyone's business. Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education. Sundler, A.J., Bjrk, M., Bisholt, B., Ohlsson, U., Engstrm, A.K. and Gustafsson, M., 2014. Student nurses' experiences of the clinical learning environment in relation to the organization of supervision: a questionnaire survey. Nurse education today, 34(4), pp.661-666.