Tools and resources

Professor Julie Ratcliffe and her team at the Caring Futures Institute and colleagues at Monash University, in the Flinders College of Medicine and Public Health and CNHS researchers Jennifer Tieman, Sue Gordon, Tiffany Conroy and Alison Kitson, were contracted to provide the Royal Commission with two reports:

• Cleland, J., Hutchinson, C., McBain, C., Walker, R., Milte, R., Khadka, J. & Ratcliffe, J. (2020). Developing dimensions for a preference-based quality of life instrument for older people receiving aged care services in the community, Quality of Life Research, 1-11. doi:10.1007/s11136-020-02649-5
• Khadka, J., Ratcliffe, J., Chen, G., Kumaran, S., Milte, R., Hutchinson, C., Savvas, S. & Batchelor, F. (2020). A new measure of quality of care in aged care: psychometric assessment, and validation of the Quality of Care Experience (QCE) questionnaire. Adelaide: Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University. https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-02/attachment-qce-and-community-expectatons.pdf
  

Professor John Coveney and colleagues within CNHS and EPSW, Georgia Middleton, Karen Patterson, Stefania Velardo, in partnership with Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia, presented evidence to the Royal Commission:

• The social and wellbeing values of shared meals provided at Cultural and Linguistically Diverse organisations https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/2020-07/AWF.600.01266.01.pdf

Professor Anthony Maeder, Dr van den Berg and colleagues from Flinders University, SAHMRI, and Bolton Clarke Research Institute prepared a research paper for the Royal Commission:

• Review of Innovative Models of Aged Care. https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-01/research-paper-3-review-innovative-models-of-aged-care.pdf

Professor Sally Robinson submitted two documents during the inquiry:

1. Robinson S & Healey A (2020) 'What is violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children and young people with disability?', Fact Sheet developed by Flinders University, Disability and Community Inclusion Team https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/exhibit/EXP.0028.0002.0260.pdf
2. Statement of Professor Sally Robinson 3 December 2019 https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/exhibit/STAT.0031.0001.0001.pdf

Feo, R., Conroy, T., Laugesen, B., Voldbjerg, S.L., Gronkjaer, M., Jensen, K., Ahad, M.A., Thomas, J., Kitson, A., & Lerbaek, B. (2025). Assessing the complexity of fundamental care: developing and refining the Flinders Fundamentals of Care Assessment Tool for Clinical Practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 81, 8972–8989. doi: 10.1111/jan.16919

Feo, R., Mott, K., Kitson, A., & Conroy, T. (2023). The Flinders Fundamentals of Care Leadership Reflection Tool. Flinders University, Australia.

Feo, R., Thornton, K., Voldbjerg, S., Dowling-Castronovo, A., & Conroy, T. (2024). The Flinders Fundamentals of Care Education Mapping Tool. Flinders University, Australia.

1. The online instructions together with the Flinders Fundamentals of Care Tools

a. Flinders Fundamentals of Care Assessment Tool – Clinical Practice

b. Flinders Fundamentals of Care Leadership Reflection Tool

c. Flinders Fundamentals of Care Education Mapping Tool

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