Project Details
Description
Internationally, aged care services are experiencing labour shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental well-being among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges. Working with healthcare leaders and informal carers in aged care settings across six European countries and Australia, Support4Resilience (S4R) will for the first time provide internationally robust tools to improve health system resilience in aged care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.
S4R will develop, implement and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental well-being factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers, explore their perspectives and needs; develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions; with implications for theory and
policy.
The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open-access S4RResource Bank. The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: mapping and identification; reflection and education, and reorganisation. Measures are initiated at the organisational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience
transpire at the frontline of aged care. The Toolbox will cover different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels.
The Toolbox will be implemented and validated through process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation and cost-effectiveness evaluation. S4R provides policymakers, decision-makers and leaders with evidence-based solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing.
S4R will develop, implement and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental well-being factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers, explore their perspectives and needs; develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions; with implications for theory and
policy.
The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open-access S4RResource Bank. The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: mapping and identification; reflection and education, and reorganisation. Measures are initiated at the organisational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience
transpire at the frontline of aged care. The Toolbox will cover different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels.
The Toolbox will be implemented and validated through process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation and cost-effectiveness evaluation. S4R provides policymakers, decision-makers and leaders with evidence-based solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing.
| Short title | Support4Resilience |
|---|---|
| Acronym | EU Collab |
| Status | Active |
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/24 → 31/12/27 |