Partnership Centre: Dealing with Cognitive and Related Functional Decline in Older People

这个伙伴关系中心的重点是如何更好地应用我们现有的知识，以及如何创造新的知识，从而直接改善对患有认知能力下降的老年人、他们的照顾者（正式和非正式）以及为他们提供服务的各种机构的支持。该合作中心的调查小组将参与一系列活动，以改善老年护理服务规划（包括护理的连续性和社区护理的风险评估）；制定和实施支持非正式照顾者的新方法；在卫生保健和社区环境中减少对认知能力下降的耻辱感；提高老年护理人员的规模和素质；通过教育协助决策、权利、公民和相关道德；完善养老监管；促进负责任的药物管理；制定和传播最新的临床指南；实施经过验证的护理模式。

The focus of this Partnership Centre is how to better apply our existing knowledge and how to create new knowledge that will directly improve support to those elderly suffering from cognitive decline, their carer’s (formal and informal) and the various agencies delivering services for them. This Partnership Centre’s Investigator Team will engage in a range of activities to improve aged care service planning (including continuity of care and risk assessments of community care); develop and implement new approaches to support informal carer’s; reduce stigma around cognitive decline in both the health care and community context; improve the size and quality of the aged care workforce; assist with decision making, rights, citizenship and related ethics through education; improve aged care regulation; promote responsible medication management; develop and disseminate up-to-date clinical guidelines; and implement proven models of care.