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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Aug 8

Last week I attended a national Embedding Oral Health in Aged Care: An implementation research workshop, hosted by Lyndal Pritchard as part of her PhD - a fantastic achievement!

@katechurruca.bsky.social presented on changing culture in Australian RACFs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39299792/

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Aug 7

To learn more about Q-methodology in healthcare research: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34154566/

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to collaborate with @katechurruca.bsky.social on our new book chapter: Making a Case for Q Methodology in Health Service Evaluations in the Handbook of Health Services Evaluation

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Co-designing M-OHAT: Modified Oral Health Assessment Tool for aged care" at #IADR2025 in Barcelona.

We collaborated with staff, residents and family to co-design the M-OHAT which aims to identify oral health problems and facilitate timely referral to dental services in residential aged care.

Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Mar 18

Frailty & Ageing in Prisons
How does incarceration affect older adults? Join the AFN Geriatric Medicine Seminar to explore challenges and solutions for better care.

📅 6 May 2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:00 AEST | 📍 Online

👉 Register: bit.ly/41rPkPu

#GeriatricMedicine #Frailty #Ageing #JusticeHealth #AFN

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Mar 11

🚨New research alert!

We identified and categorised goals of frail older people living with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease.

Participants most frequently focused their goals on function, physical health, social engagement, and leisure.

@ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Mar 2

Our four Frailty-ADD CRE Seed Grant recipients presenting at the #AFNsummit2025

@ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social

These grants support early career researchers and health professionals to conduct research aiming to improve outcomes for frail patients in hospitals.

www.afn.org.au/frailty-add-...

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Feb 14

Last week I presented @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social’s research on co-designing frailty education with consumers, caregivers, students and healthcare professionals. This work has informed the design of 12 digital education modules which we are currently building! #ASBHM2025
@uqchsr.bsky.social

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Feb 11

Join our team at @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social!

We have a Level A/B position focused on frailty, co-design, health education, health promotion, and qualitative/mixed-methods research.

shorturl.at/WA5fw

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Feb 10

🚀 𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴!🚀

Come join our Brisbane team!

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 (𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗔 𝗼𝗿 𝗕) 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼-𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻
shorturl.at/WA5fw

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝗛𝗘𝗪𝟴) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆
shorturl.at/jjlAi

💼 Please note that the entry level salary for PhD holders at Level A is $100,162.80.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Frailty & Co-design Job in Woolloongabba, Brisbane QLD - SEEK

Exciting opportunity to shape the future of frailty, co-design, and health education through cutting-edge research and collaboration with healthcare c

shorturl.at

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Jan 15

Join our team at the Australian Frailty Network!

I'm looking for a PhD student to work with me on on a co-design project that aims to empower Australians to prevent and manage frailty through digital education.

PhD scholarship available: shorturl.at/h1gSP

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Jan 14

🚨 Exciting PhD opportunity with the Australian Frailty Network! Co-design a digital frailty education intervention to empower consumers & caregivers to prevent & manage frailty.

📍 University of Queensland
🎓 Supervision: Dr Kristiana Ludlow
🔗https://shorturl.at/h1gSP

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Dec 13

Congrats Dr Tornvall!!

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Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

accessible.design @assistivetech.bsky.social · Dec 12

Great article on aged care dashboard co-design:

🔹medications, appointments, health tracker, etc

🔹jargon-free terms

🔹use color for urgency and importance 🚦

🔹large font, strong contrast

🔹use graphs sparingly and have text explanations

🔹limit the use of symbols

#Accessibility #AgedCare

Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨New research!

Aged care clients (community + residential) and family members shared their design ideas and preferences for co-designing a new aged care digital dashboard of integrated client data, real-time predictive risk models and decision support.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thanks for the great summary!

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨New research!

Aged care clients (community + residential) and family members shared their design ideas and preferences for co-designing a new aged care digital dashboard of integrated client data, real-time predictive risk models and decision support.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Dec 12

I'm so grateful to work with such a wonderful group of people at @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social where our vision is to deliver a national response to frailty and help all Australians age well.

Last night our team were awarded UQ's Faculty of Med Collaborators of the Year Award!
@uqchsr.bsky.social

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Dec 11

🌟 What a night! 🌟

AFN is proud to win Collaborators of the Year at the UQ Faculty of Medicine Excellence Awards!

This celebrates teamwork & the amazing people behind our growth. Shoutout to Ruth Hubbard, Leader of the Year 2 years ago, for inspiring us!

#Teamwork #Collaboration #Leadership

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Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Dec 10

Excited to announce the 2024 Frailty-ADD CRE Seed Grant recipients!

🌟 Dr Nicola Straiton – Frailty Clinical Champion in AU & SE.
🌟 Melinda Williamson – Economic evaluation of early frailty services in EDs.

They’ll be presenting at AFN Summit 2025!

#ResearchGrant #Frailty #AFNSummit2025

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Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

Jacki Liddle @jacki-liddle.bsky.social · Dec 5

One of the projects I am very proud to be involved with is the Florence Project at UQ: eecs.uq.edu.au/florence

We have been codesigning technologies to support communication and participation with people living with dementia and their care partners.

#dementia #AssistiveTechnology

Florence Project: Make my day go better

Florence is a diverse, cross-discipline project that aims to design communication technology to assist people living with dementia.

eecs.uq.edu.au

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 28

A great consumer session at Health Translation Qld 5th National HREC Conference!

I presented with @dr-am-young.bsky.social and our consumer collaborators Anja Christoffersen and Mary Denver on the Australian Frailty Network's consumer collaboration and navigating challenges in ethics applications.

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 28

'Consumer-focus' and 'Collaboration' are two of our core values at the Australian Frailty Network.
www.afn.org.au/vision-and-v...

Hear from two of our members about their collaboration on the the co-design of a co-design framework.

bit.ly/3Zndf2F

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Nov 28

Consumer engagement's increasingly central role in health services research is being driven by leaders like Anja Christoffersen and #CHSR's Adrienne Young - just featured on new podcast Consumer Health Partnerships talking about co-designing a co-design framework! bit.ly/3Zndf2F
🫶 #healthconsumers

Consumer Health Partnerships Podcast: Episode 2

Episode 2: Partnering for Better Health with Anja Christoffersen and Adrienne Young

bit.ly

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 25

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Community Preferences for Allied Health Services in Residential Aged Care

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 25

🚨New research

We used Q-methodology to explore what allied health services are most important to consumers and their expectations of these services in residential aged care.

Q-methodology is a mixed method using card sorting/ranking to identify viewpoints; the systematic study of subjectivity.

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Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

Euan Reid @euanreid.pharmsky.app · Nov 20

Ageing and frailty: Standards for the care of older people. Health Care Improvement Scotland.
www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scot/publications...

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Fantastic, thank you!

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Reposted by Kristiana Ludlow

A/Prof Sarah J. Wallace @sarahjwallace.bsky.social · Nov 18

I'm excited to announce a fully funded domestic (Australian) #PhD opportunity to work with me and the team at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre.

Read more here study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Scholarship includes: living stipend of $35,000 pa tax free & tuition fees.

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Kristiana Ludlow @kristianaludlow.bsky.social · Nov 24

Introducing the Australian Frailty Network (AFN).

This paper presents the establishment of AFN, including the AFN's vision, values, purpose, research activities, action plans, education, and consumer engagement.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#frailty

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