The future of care in the home will be shaped by new research and discoveries.
The future of care in the home will be shaped by new research and discoveries.
Our research and innovation agenda, Future Care, reflects our commitment to home care leadership. It enables us to contribute to national and international learnings on best practice, policy and funding.
Future Care helps us improve current services and create new models of care through the evaluation and translation of new knowledge; developing and testing new products, services and technologies; and conducting academic research.
But most importantly, it’s about improving our clients’ health and care experience for generations to come.
Dr Anna Barker, Executive Director, Research and Innovation outlines Silverchain’s commitment to creating a better home care system through innovative models of care.
Future Care will continue to build our understanding of the value and impact of our services, develop innovative models of care that embrace digital and virtual care solutions, and strengthen and extend our academic collaborative research activities.
Our unique, long term approach to collaboration with leaders across the health and aged care system brings together academic partners to co-design programs of research and innovation activities, train and develop future researchers and innovators, create a pathway for knowledge sharing across the sector, and advocate for change for the benefit of Australians accessing in-home care.
In 2021-22, Silverchain expanded our partnership with the Western Sydney Local Health District to stand up COVID InTouch. This new program was a support system to help manage people with COVID-19 in the community. It also enabled our palliative care service in western Sydney to incorporate telephone nursing. This ensured our clients had undisrupted access to care during the pandemic’s mandated periods requiring physical distancing and isolation.
Silverchain is incorporating the learnings from this program to inform a transition to a model of care that will yield improved productivity, clinical outcomes and our clients’ experiences of our care. We are exploring new horizons in digitally enabled care to allow more clients to receive high quality health care, no matter where they live.
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