Judy Lowthian
Monash University
Judy Lowthian
Judy is an experienced gerontological researcher, having worked in academia at Monash University, and as Head of Research and Principal Research Fellow at Bolton Clarke, a national not-for-profit aged and community care provider. Judy’s expertise is in mixed methods research that includes codesign, analysis of big data, embedded pragmatic and randomised controlled trials, and program implementation and evaluation in pre-hospital, hospital and long-term care. Her focus is on optimising health and wellbeing whilst integrating coordinated transitions through life and the care continuum, to enable and support people to a life of fulfilment.
Judy’s career spans more than four decades of leadership, clinical practice, governance, and scholarly achievement spanning acute, subacute, community, and aged care sectors. Judy currently serves as Chair of a Victoria regional health service board and she has held a range of high-level governance roles, including several international and national advisory and steering committees focused on aged care, primary care workforce planning, and ageing research
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Australia; |
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| Topics | Ageing in place; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Co-production in LTC; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Person-centered care; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Social Innovation in LTC; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Co-production methods; Creative research methods; Data science and LTC research; Longitudinal data analysis; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Qualitative studies; Quasi-experimental methods; Research ethics; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Community-based approaches to dementia care; Data Science; Long-Term Care Policy; |
| Website | https://www.boltonclarke.com.au/about-us/BCRI/research-team/professor-judy-lowthian/ |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-9780-5256 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/judy-lowthian-362b6b133/ | |
| Research interests | My research expertise in mixed methods research including codesign, epidemiological analysis of big data, embedded pragmatic and randomised controlled trials, implementation science and program evaluation, has enabled leadership of multidisciplinary gerontological health services research encompassing emergency care, hospital-to-home care transitions, frailty, cognitive impairment and dementia, loneliness, palliative care, and implementation of new models of care with a focus on patient and family experience. |
| Key publications | Robinson, E., ….. & Lowthian, J. A. Adaptation and Implementation of a Volunteer-delivered, Telephone-based, Social Support Program HOW-R-U? during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pragmatic Study. The Gerontologist. DOI:10.1093/geront/gnae034 Joe A, …. & Lowthian JA. Australian retirement village residents: wellbeing profile and factors associated with low wellbeing. Ageing and Society 2023 DOI:10.1017/S0144686X23000144 Meyer C, …. & Lowthian JA. A co-designed fit-for-purpose implementation framework for aged care. J Eval Clin Prac. 2 Feb 2022; 28 (3) DOI: 10.1111/jep.13660 Lowthian JA, …& Rose M. Being Your Best: Protocol for a feasibility study of a co-designed approach to reduce symptoms of frailty in people aged 65 years or more, after transition from hospital. BMJ Open 2021 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043223 |