Timeframe
2005–2009
Funding
Health Research Council of New Zealand
Accident Compensation Corporation
COMPASS staff
Janet Pearson
Martin von Randow
Collaborators
University of Auckland
Ngaire Kerse
Kathryn Peri
Elizabeth Robinson
Jane Willingale
Liz Kiata
Tim Wilkinson
Bruce Arroll
John Parsons
Matthew Parsons
Nancy Latham
Paul Brown
Description
This project, led by Associate Professor Ngaire Kerse at the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, involved running a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial at 41 low-level-dependency residential care homes across Aotearoa New Zealand. COMPASS staff were involved in data management and quality checking.
A total of 682 residents aged 65 years or over were recruited. Just under half of them were offered a goal-setting and individualised activities of daily living activity programme by a gerontology nurse, reinforced by usual healthcare assistants; the rest received social visits. Outcomes were measured describing function, quality of life, falls, depressive symptoms, and hospital admissions.