Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care Program: Final Evaluation Report
11.8 - Summary
- Key Messages
- Executive Summary
- About This Report
1 - Introduction- 2 - Evidence, Changes in Practice and the EBPRAC Program
- 3 - Program Delivery/Implementation
- 4 - Program Impact
- 5 - Capacity Building
- 6 - Generalisability
- 7 - Sustainability
- 8 - Dissemination
- 9 - Appropriateness
- 10 - Cost Implications for Government and Aged Care Providers
11 - Perceptions of High-Level Stakeholders- 12 - Discussion and Conclusions
- 13 - Recommendations
- References
- Appendices 1 to 6
- Appendices 7 to 12
- Appendices 13 to 17
The interviews reveal that key stakeholders within the aged care sector, while applauding the overall intent of the EBPRAC program, have limited knowledge and awareness of its overall impact and outcomes. A consistent theme was the need for better dissemination of information about the program, and in particular of its findings and resources. Key issues raised were the importance of information being accessible, current, and available in a range of formats which take into account the different health literacy and information requirements of the range of staff working in aged care settings.
There was a very clear appreciation of the recognition on the part of government for the need to invest in evidence-based practice. A number of themes emerged regarding factors which enable the application of clinical best practice, and of factors that inhibit it, many of which are consistent with the feedback from the EBPRAC projects and from the literature.
The respondents all agree that there is a need for ongoing investment to support the identification of evidence-based practice, its translation across the variety of structures and systems, resource constraints and cultures found in aged care services, the development of a professional identity which could drive ongoing developments and a mechanism to coordinate, update and disseminate best practice in a way that is accessible and credible to those working in the sector.
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