Tools and resources

Impact is at the centre of everything we do. Explore our tools, policy reports and submissions and other resources created by our research.

Food Service Satisfaction Questionnaires

Our Questionnaires are valid for measurement of the food service satisfaction of stakeholders in residential aged care homes; the 25-item questionnaire for residents, the 24-item questionnaire for families of residents and the 42-item questionnaire for food service staff.

View Food Service Satisfaction Questionnaires

Quality of Life and Quality of Care Instruments for Aged Care

The Quality of Life for Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) tool can be used to track the quality of life of aged care consumers over time and helps providers demonstrate the impacts of their services and supports.

Quality of Life Tool

Mi-PARIHS

The Mi-PARIHS Project is dedicated to adapting the i-PARIHS (integrated-Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services) framework into a suite of practical and pragmatic tools to be used by researchers, academics, and clinicians to support their implementation projects.

Mi-PARIHS

VegKIT

Flinders Caring Futures Institute is working with the CSIRO and Nutrition Australia to deliver VegKIT, an integrated five-year project designed to deliver tools and interventions to increase children’s vegetable intake.

VegKIT

Tools to measure food, diet quality and risk of overweight or obesity in children

Flinders Caring Futures Institute researchers, including as part of the EPOCH CRE, have developed a suite of brief tools that measure diet, food intake and diet quality in children. Tools are available to measure dietary intake across childhood, from as early as 6months of age. Through the EPOCH CRE tools are also available to measure physical activity, screen time and sleep of children under five years.

Tools to measure children’s food intake and diet quality

My Wellbeing Journal

My Wellbeing Journal is a co-designed resource created by the Caring Futures Institute to help people with chronic conditions set and track health and wellbeing goals. The journal can help support better communication with healthcare teams, empowering users to discuss and prioritise their needs, preferences, and care plans.

My Wellbeing Journal

Policy Reports and Submissions

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety

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

Disability Royal Commission

Professor Sally Robinson submitted two documents during the inquiry:

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
Statement of Professor Sally Robinson 3 December 2019 https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/exhibit/STAT.0031.0001.0001.pdf

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