Meg Polacsek
Aged Care Research and Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA)
Meg Polacsek
Meg is a Senior Research Fellow in ARIIA’s Workforce Capacity and Capability team. She has extensive experience in research, project management, communications and advocacy in academic, public health and service provider settings. Meg has a Master of Health Science (Aged Services Management) and was awarded a PhD in 2018. More recently, she completed a Specialist Certificate in Implementation Science. However, it is her early experience as a personal carer in residential and community aged care that most strongly informs her efforts to improve the experience of ageing and aged care.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Australia; |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Care Homes; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Co-production in LTC; Dementia care and support; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Implementation; Loneliness among older people; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Person-centered care; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Social connection; |
| Methods | Case studies; Document analysis; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Policy analysis; Qualitative studies; Questionnaire; Research ethics; Surveys; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Training materials; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care Policy; Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-2945-3594 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-polacsek-phd-24765386/ | |
| Research interests | Qualitative research Ageing, aged care and mental health |
| Key publications | O’Dwyer, M., Porter, T., Rittinghausen, N., Tribuzio, L., & Polacsek, M. (2024). Who speaks my language? Linguistic diversity among people living in Australian residential aged care facilities. Australasian Journal on Ageing. doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13275 Polacsek, M., & Porter, T. (2023). A service provider approach to rights-based research, in Urbaniak, A., & Wanka, A. (Eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003254829 Polacsek, M., & Porter, T. (2023). Facilitating advance care planning in the thriving retirement village setting. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 42(2), 423-428. doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13168 Polacsek, M., & Woolford, M. (2022). Strategies to support older adults’ mental health during the transition into residential aged care: A qualitative study of multiple stakeholder perspectives. BMC Geriatrics, 22(1), 151. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-02859-1 Polacsek, M., Boardman, G. H., & McCann, T. V. (2021). A theory on the components of depression self-management in older adults. Qualitative Health Research, 31(1), 160-171. doi: 10.1177/10497323209610 Woolford, M., Joyce, C., & Polacsek, M. (2021). Strategies to optimize aged care volunteer recruitment and retention: A systematic review. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/01634372.2021.1923605 Polacsek, M., Goh, A., Malta, S. … Dow, B. (2019) I know they’re not trained in dementia’: Addressing the need for specialist dementia training for home care workers. Health & Social Care in the Community. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12880 Polacsek, M., Boardman, G., & McCann, T.V. (2019). Understanding, choosing and applying grounded theory: Part 2. Nurse Researcher, 26(3), 43-49. doi: 10.7748/nr.2019/e1593 McCann, T.V., & Polacsek, M. (2018). Understanding, choosing and applying grounded theory: Part 1. Nurse Researcher, 26(3), 36-41. doi: 10.7748/nr.2018/e1592 McCann, T. V., & Polacsek, M. (2018). Addressing the vexed issue of authorship and author order: A discussion paper. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(9), 2064-2074. doi: 10.1111/jan.13720 McCann, T. V., & Polacsek, M. (2017). False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(4), 809-817. doi: 10.1111/jan.13483 Polacsek, M., Boardman, G., & McCann, T. V. (2016). Paying patient and caregiver research participants: Putting theory into practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(4), 847-856. doi: 10.1111/jan.13222 |