Patient and public involvement

The research team conducted face-to-face consultations with the formal Consumer and Carer Reference Group maintained by the overarching aged care organisation to discuss the design, recruitment processes and conduct of the current pilot and feasibility study. This group comprises 10–12 people who either receive community-based home care services or residential aged care services from the aged care organisation, or have a family member who receive these services. This group was established in 2013 and meets regularly to provide advice on issues relating to services provided by the aged care organisation. The research team also consulted the consumer and carer members of the Stakeholder Reference Group of a related study.⁷ Feedback on the relevance of the outcome measures to be assessed in this study for older people living in the community was also sought during the face-to-face consultations.