Champion Life Education Ltd in partnership with University of the Sunshine Coast and Comlink Australia has been awarded an ARIIA grant for their project ‘Online physical activity and wellbeing intervention supporting personal care workers to improve physical and mental wellbeing for older adults’.
This project will implement and evaluate a personalised physical activity and wellbeing monitoring program (the intervention) through an online platform (Champion Life Seniors) utilising follow-along videos focusing on functional mobility.
The target population are community-dwelling older adults (OA) receiving care through Home Care Packages (HCP). Personal care workers (PCWs) will integrate the 15-minute program into their service visits 2 times per week over 6 months The project will allow PCWs to easily implement, deliver and monitor an evidenced-based intervention developed and presented by allied health professionals (AHP).
This project increases PCW’s capacity to improve functional mobility and monitor wellbeing with the expected outcome being improved physical and mental wellbeing of OAs. AHPs will assess each participant prior to commencing, set them a program based on the OA’s functional goals and abilities and be contactable through the platform during the intervention.
Initial pilot testing with a group of OA’s and PCW’s will be followed by a co-design process with the researchers to improve the primary intervention. Champion Life Seniors (CLS) will be evaluated for effectiveness of the intervention, feasibility of implementation by PCWs and usability by PCW and OA participants with the aim of establishing the long-term fidelity of the program.