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Rebecca Bilton

Aged Care Research and Industry Innovation (ARIIA)


Rebecca Bilton

Passionate about the delivery of high-quality research and the translation of research into practical and meaningful community and industry outcomes, Rebecca specialises in research management, collaborative research partnerships and the successful delivery of large state and national projects. Since 2008, I have had pivotal involvement in the strategic planning, implementation and translation of innovative national health workforce programs, health service research and trials. For the past 9 years, I have worked in aged care research translation, undertaking research to improve health service delivery, clinical care and wellbeing outcomes for vulnerable elderly Australians.

At ARIIA, I manage the team that delivers national capability development and knowledge building to increase aged workforce capacity and capability to innovate, implement best-practice and manage change

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Australia;
Topics Access to care; Ageing in place; AI and LTC; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomy; Care economy; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Data science; Deinstitutionalisation; Dementia care and support; Employment education and family carers; Healthcare access in LTC; Housing and care; Implementation; Information and data systems in LTC; Living arrangements; Local care ecosystems; Loneliness among older people; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Pain assessment and management; Pain management in care homes; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Provider sector; Quality, regulation and accreditation for LTC services; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Protection; Stigma and discrimination; Technology and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Case studies; Co-production methods; Ethnography; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Other; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Research ethics; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Time series analysis; Training materials; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Trials and other evaluations;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Data Science; Employment Education and Family carers; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Technology and Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.flinders.edu.au/people/rebecca.bilton
ORC.ID0000-0003-1932-8957
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=z6WcJIgAAAAJ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-rebecca-bilton/16/18a/60a
Other 1https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8789751500;
Other 2https://www.ariia.org.au/our-team;
Research interests

I currently work in the capability development and research consultancy field to support aged care providers to implement best-practice.

Key publications

Hibbert, P. D., et al. The quality of care delivered to residents in long-term care in Australia: an indicator-based review of resident records (CareTrack Aged study). BMC Medicine (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03387-0

Andrade, A.Q. et al. Correlation of frailty assessment metrics in one-year follow-up of aged care residents: Aging Clin Exp Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-023-02491-y

Lim R, et al. Pharmacists as patient advocates: A series of case studies illustrating the impacts of a regular pharmacist[..]). 2023. V10. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100268

Lim R, et al. Using wrist worn accelerometers to identify the sedentary impact of medicines with anticholinergic or sedative properties: a 12-month prospective analysis. Maturitas. 172:9-14. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.03.006

Kalisch Ellett LM, et al. Prevalence and preventability of adverse medicine events in a sample of Australian aged care residents. Drug Safety. 2023 46(5): 493–500; doi: 10.1007/s40264-023-01299-

Dorj G, et. al. Risk Factors Predictive of Adverse Drug Events and Drug-Related Falls in Aged Care Residents: Secondary Analysis from the ReMInDAR Trial. Drugs & Aging. 2023; https://doi.org/10.1007/s40266-022-00983-6

Lim R, et. al. Frailty trajectory over one year among residential aged care (nursing home) residents. Front. Med. 2022 9:1010444. doi:10.3389/fmed.2022.1010444

Roughead EE, et. al. Effect of an ongoing pharmacist service to reduce medicine-induced deterioration and adverse reactions in aged-care facilities (nursing homes): Age and Aging. 2022; vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1-9 https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/51/4/afac092/6572256