Eat Walk Engage is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary program that improves care for older people in hospital, prevents delirium and promotes recovery. Eat Walk Engage is enabling hospitals to be more older-person friendly by supporting older person and carer engagement, local leadership and teamwork, education and training, and environmental redesign.
It will be implemented in ten new hospitals in Queensland in 2019, investigated in a subacute care ward at Redcliffe hospital in a Medical Research Future Fund collaborative program with UQ and QUT partners, and piloted in a first interstate site at Flinders Medical Centre in collaboration with Professor Alison Kitson, Flinders University.