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Improving the Implementation of Transitional Care Innovations

Bridging the gap between research evidence and practice remains to be a challenge often seen in numerous attempts to implement innovations and new interventions or guidelines within healthcare. Furthermore, the ever-growing senior population across Europe coupled with an augmented demand for long-term care services and care transitions across providers and settings necessitates the urgent need to innovate or “do things differently”. However the implementation of novel interventions tend to be contingent and influenced by an interplay of various enabling or hindering factors linked to multiple domains such as the context, individual, and innovation. The current research project “Improving the Implementation of Transitional Care Innovations” is embedded within a greater research consortium the “TRANS-SENIOR, Innovative Training Network” funded by the EU; which strives to develop healthcare innovators, generate evidence, and create novel tools in order to improve the long-term care and care transitions for seniors. Specifically, the project aims to first identify and investigate in-depth which factors influence the implementation of innovations in long-term care, and particularly new transitional care models; and second to build consensus among key stakeholders on potential strategies for the implementation of transitional care interventions. The work needed to complete this project will be divided into three main stages; starting with a scoping review to explore the literature on the various determining factors that can influence the implementation of innovations in transitional care including new interventions and care models. Consequently, the second stage will constitute of field work to obtain additional insights and data from real-life implementation of various transitional care interventions and innovations within the TRANS-SENIOR program and other care organizations such as the Living Lab in the Netherlands. The last stage will be dedicated to developing a guiding toolbox of strategies readily available for use by healthcare professionals to support them in implementing and sustaining the adoption of new transitional care interventions within their care settings.

Date:28 Oct 2019 →  10 Jul 2023
Keywords:Implementation, Innovation, Care transitions, Seniors, Long-term care
Disciplines:Elderly care
Project type:PhD project