The Australian Hartford Consortium’s nursing experts are committed to making a difference in policy, education and practice.
Our team members have numerous publications and research outputs.
For detailed information on publications, see each team member’s academic profile on the People page.
Below is a sample of other submissions and outputs that have provided advice, recommendations and counsel related to gerontological nursing and ageing and aged care.
Contributing to aged care reform
- Australian College of Nursing Aged Care Solutions Expert Advisory Group (2021) Perspective brief: Aged care reform – recommendations to action
- Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery position statement: Gerontological nursing to improve care of older people.
- Submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety from the Australian Hartford Consortium for Gerontological Nursing Excellence (Aus HCGNE)
- Australian College of Nursing(ACN) (2020) Optimising person- and family-centred end-of-life care during COVID-19 – position statement, ACN,Canberra
- Australian College of Nursing (ACN) (2020) Voluntary assisted dying – position statement, ACN, Canberra
- Supplementary submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee inquiry into the future of Australia’s aged care sector workforce 18 May 2016
Influencing nursing development and research translation
- Article: ‘Join in developing a new wave of nurse graduates.’ Online at Australian Ageing Agenda and in print in Australian Ageing Agenda magazine Mar-Apr 2022.
- Aged Care Transition to Practice Program – Gerontological nursing competencies
- Vafeus, C, Slatyer, S (2021) Gerontological nursing: A holistic approach to the care of older people Elsevier
- Aged Dementia Health Education and Research (ADHERe)
Raising public awareness of gerontological nursing
- Australasian Conference on Care of Older People, 23 to 28 October, 2022. In partnership with the ECU Centre for Research in Aged Care
- Podcast: Hope for aged care (Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, 29 April 2022)
- Webinar: Australia’s ailing aged care system and how we can significantly improve the quality of ageing for all (UTS Ageing Research Collaborative series, 5 April 2022)
- Today’s aged care falls well short of how we’d like to be treated – but there is another way (Sunshine Coast News, 1 March 2022)
- Podcast: Staying young even when we are getting older (Baptistcare, Demistifying Aged Care Podcast, S2:E6, 6 December 2021)
- Aged care: put your data where the care is (InSight, 27 June 2021)
- We all hope for a ‘good death’. But many aged-care residents are denied proper end-of-life care (The Conversation, 3 March 2021)
- Frail elderly with dementia: there is an alternative (InSight, 26 October 2020)