Effective relationships in dementia community care: Promoting Independence though quality dementia care at home (the PITCH project).

Summary This project focuses on developing a three-way triad tool (person with dementia, family carer, home care worker) to improve communication and relationships in community dementia care. This project will involve data collection in a RCT, developing the tool, and validity and reliability testing.

Project Details

p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: -24px;"span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"The PITCH projectaims to improve outcomes for people with dementia and their paid and familycarers by co-developing and testing an evidence-based dementia specialisttraining program for community dementia care. The co-designed program will be implemented as partof a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) with our partnerhome care providers to investigate the program’s impact on both care recipientoutcomes (independence, wellbeing, and quality of life) and carer (both paidand unpaid) outcomes (burden of care, resilience and service satisfaction). This project will spanfont face="Times New Roman" size="1"dfontspan style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"evelop a three-way triad tool (person with dementia, family carer, home care worker) spanfont face="Arial, sans-serif"to improve communication and relationships in community dementia care.fontspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;" It will involve data collection in the RCT, developing the tool, and validity andreliability testing.   spanpp class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: -24px;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;" spanpp class="MsoNoSpacing"span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"The PITCHstudy is a large NHMRC funded Boosting Dementia project Grant  (2017-2020) led by Professor BrionyDow. spanspan style="text-indent: -24px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"The PhD willbe based at NARI and Melbourne University. This opportunity offers a unique chance to work in amultidisciplinary environment as part of a large multispanspan style="text-indent: -24px; font-family: "Cambria Math", serif;"‐spanspan style="text-indent: -24px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"institutional and international studyand to contribute crucial new knowledge.spanspan style="text-indent: -18pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" spanpp class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"o:po:pspanp