Community Resourcing and the Community Care Smart Assistive Technology Collaborative have been successful in securing partnerships for two upcoming projects. The proposals for these projects were funded by the Dementia and Aged Care Services (DACS) grants and funding initiative.

The first project has already commenced and is in partnership with Central Queensland University (CQU). It is titled, ‘Caring for carers of people with dementia-harnessing innovation through deploying leading edge technologies to enable virtual support groups’. Professor Lynne Parkinson is a leading contributor of this project.  This project will combine evidence from two recent projects to collaboratively co-design and evaluate a facilitated peer-support information program for carers of people with dementia (PWD) within rural areas. We will be recruiting clients in Central Queensland, Far North Queensland and Wide Bay. If you’d like to be involved you can contact sat@communityresourcing.com.au or watch these news items for more material.

The second project is in partnership with CSIRO. The aim of this project is to evaluate the Smarter Safer Homes platform across a range of service providers in metro, regional and rural settings. The evaluation will be conducted among 200 participants aged 65-years and over living at home and supported by home care service providers. More details about this project will be released in the upcoming weeks.