Welcome to NuW-Age

NuW-Age seeks to improve the nutritional health and well-being of older people, using evidenced-based approaches, developed in collaboration with aged care providers, residents, and thought-leaders.

Our Projects

ACTAH: Malnutrition assessment and management by the student workforce

AutoMal: Automating malnutrition identification

MIP: Implementing a malnutrition intervention pathway

Residential Aged Care Workforce

What is the ACTAH project?

The Aged Care Triage by Allied Health (ACTAH) project uses an innovative model of care, to improve the health and wellbeing of residents in aged care facilities by identifying and treating malnutrition early.

Dietetics students from accredited Australian courses screen residents for malnutrition and as needed, provide evidence-based advice to stop and ultimately reverse malnutrition. Students are entry level competent in nutrition screening and assessment.

Stakeholders and consumers across the country are engaged through regular meetings. Their feedback helps inform the intervention.

The best-practice model of care was developed by researchers at Griffith University and is underpinned by world class research.

Benefits for residential aged care facilities

Opportunities to get involved

All accredited residential aged care service providers in Australia can become a research partner.

I am interested in finding out more!

Who can participate

We have several opportunities for accredited residential aged care service providers in Australia with an interest in quality improvement:

What’s involved

Malnutrition screening is undertaken by dietetics students, who are organised by the ACTAH project team. Intervention is based on usual care, so there is no additional work for staff.

Residents will be screened using the gold standard Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). The innovative ‘malnutrition indicator’ will be tested against the SGA to provide a more efficient and effective way to evaluate nutrition in the future.

Onsite, the students will document findings and intervention in the resident’s medical file. They will also need a point of contact to communicate their findings and recommendations to.

Step 1 - Malnutrition identification

Dietetics students undertake malnutrition screening and document results in the resident’s medical file.

Step 2 – Action on identified malnutrition risk

Withing the Malnutrition Intervention Pathway (MIP), students allocate residents to a nutrition intervention depending on identified malnutrition risk level.

Contact Us

Email

actah@griffith.edu.au

Phone

+921 345 6789