- Project status
- Complete
- Contact
- Professor Denise Jepsen
- Institution web page
- https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/denise-jepsen
- Host institution
- Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Team members
- Professor Denise Jepsen, Toni Barker
- Funding information (if funded)
- This research was commissioned and funded in October 2020 by Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) on behalf of the sector-led consortium also including Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), The Guild and several Unions.
- Project Summary
Report on a study into the implementation of the single-site employment (SSE) practices introduced as part the Guiding Principle for Victorian residential aged care facilities (RACFs) in 2020 to assist with managing the Covid-19 outbreak. A mix of employee, union, peak and advocate plus provider interviews were conducted.
- Outputs / Expected Outputs
Discussion document intended to provide a comprehensive multi-stakeholder perspective on this new employment practice.
- Jepsen Barker MQ Covid-19 Residential Aged Care Single Site Employment final report 210606.pdf
- This report includes output from stakeholder interviews x 74 (including employee, unions, peak bodies, aged care advocates and for profit, not for profit and public providers), international human resource academic scan, literature review, Australian academic scan and Australian and international gerontologist contributions.
- Countries
- Australia
- Care setting
- Care homes/LTC facilities
- Funding type
- Other
- Impact/outcomes
- Implementation outcomes | Pandemic preparedness
- Intervention types
- Cohorting and isolation approaches | Measures to reduce risk of infections from staff | Preventing/controlling COVID-19 infections
- Methods
- Mixed methods
- Groups/organisations
- Care provider/care organisations | Staff working in long-term care