Research: Clinical Utility of interRAI data

Posted by Karen Mumme on 5 February 2025

You can participate in this research. The HOPE Foundation for Research on Ageing supports this current Needs Assessment research. The research lead is a past HOPE Scholar, Joanna Hikaka, and we are supporting the Summer Student working on this project, Aziza Shawudun.

Some older people have had a needs assessment to see what might be needed to help with everyday life.

This would have involved talking to an assessor who would have asked you questions about how you go about things like showering, walking, and socialising with others and may have led to you having home help.

Everyone in an aged care facility, or rest home in NZ had this type of assessment done, but usually with one of the staff members.

These assessments are known as interRAI assessments.

If you, or someone close to you has had this type of assessment please read on, as your views and experiences are important.

Link to survey

We would like to invite you to complete a short survey, the results will be used to work out the best services to help with everyday life.

The survey is about your views and experiences with the interRAI processes and data.

We want to improve the information available from the assessments for older people and their whānau and families.

The University of Auckland is funding this survey as part of a programme of work about the interRAI suite of tools and how they are used.

 The survey takes about 5-15 minutes and asks about your experiences with the interRAI assessment tools and the interRAI data.

Before starting, important information is in the ‘participant information sheet’.

This explains the study and the survey in detail – please read it here: Clinical Utility of InterRAI Data - The University of Auckland

 If you are interested in completing the survey, please click here: https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/INDIVIDUAL_WHĀNAUsurvey

You don’t have to do the survey at all, it is completely voluntary, and the survey is anonymous (so we won’t be able to get back to you about your individual results).

You can go in a draw for a prize voucher if you would like to, after you have completed the survey.

This study has been approved by the Auckland Health Research Ethics Committee (16/12/24; Ref:28693)

Thank you for your time in responding. We really value your views.

Ngaire Kerse and Joanna Hikaka

University of Auckland