Implementing the Teaching Nursing Homes Initiative: Scoping Study

The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) commissioned the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR) at The University of Adelaide to undertake a scoping study to inform the implementation of what was then known as the Teaching Nursing Homes Initiative - now known as Teaching and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS). (The Teaching Nursing Home (TNH) is most simply defined as an aged care facility in which clinical care, education and research are interlinked). The scoping study identified critical enablers and barriers to establishing and operating a Teaching Nursing Home (TNH) and the range of models under which this is occurring in Australia. It involved a literature review and structured interviews with all known TNH affiliations.

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