Wellbeing and Ethno-specific Age Care – Pilot Study

Overview

This report highlights the findings of a collaborative research project entitled “Wellbeing and Ethno-specific Age Care – Pilot Study”. This research was a joint effort of the Australian Catholic University (ACU), UnitingCare Ageing NSW & ACT, Scalabrini Village, DutchCare, Ansell Strategic, and Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre as industry partners in a research collaborative agreement. The study was conducted from June to December, 2015.

Methodology

A mixed-method approach was used such that quantitative and qualitative data complemented each other to provide insights and enable unbiased interpretation of findings. This report summarises some informative results that enabled us to make useful recommendations.

The roles of the researchers of the Institute of Positive Psychology and Education at ACU included developing a research plan, developing questionnaires and a focus group schedule for assessing wellbeing, overseeing and advising on data collection, entering and analysing the data, and writing up the report.

The industry partners’ roles included helping with scheduling data collection at both ethno-specific and mainstream aged care services, helping with the translation of questionnaire and focus group topics, seeking trained health care workers to assist with the project, and liaising with managers of aged care services.

All parties involved in the project have successfully accomplished their tasks and data have been collected from a reasonable number of participants with a scope for quantitative analysis that is rarely seen before in this area of research.

This final report is presented in two sections. The first section is the research report which is primarily an executive summary of the research aims, research questions, findings, and recommendations based on the findings. The second section is a technical report which presents the details of quantitative and qualitative analysis leading to implications and recommendations.

For more information about the research and detailed findings you can download the full article at the link provided below.