research outputs

Summer Foundation Researchers worked with Professor Barry Willer, author of the Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), to extend the original tool to include a measure of the use of electronic social networking for social integration. Read More

People with a newly acquired disability typically start their journey through the health system within acute services, progressing to subacute services for a period of rehabilitation, before being discharged into the community. Transitional services that bridge the gap between... Read More

Young People in Residential Aged Care (2017-2018) A Snapshot aims to provide this critical information to organisations and government bodies that are working to create the systems change needed to resolve the issue of young people in aged care. Read More

The Hospital Discharge Project aims to bring about better coordinated discharge planning processes that enable younger people to leave hospital earlier and move back into the community, ultimately leading to fewer young Victorians entering residential aged care (RAC). Read More

AHURI and the Summer Foundation (SF) have collaborated to review and analyse the available evidence on post-occupancy evaluation (POE). The aim of the evidence review is to inform a rigorous framework to evaluate the built design of housing projects... Read More

Podcasts are available for the Summer Foundation Breakfast Club professional development lecture series on brain injury rehabilitation Read More

The Summer Foundation and Monash University conducted interviews with 68 people with disabilities and families who received services through the five-year Victorian Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) initiative. Read More

This report details the findings from the first 105 people who had individual plans and assessments completed between February and August 2007 as part of the my future my choice initiative. Read More