The University of the Sunshine Coast is proposing a new trial to house students and aged-care residents in a decommissioned aged care facility.
Six students will live with aged-care residents at the Cooinda Aged Care Centre near the university’s Gympie campus in a program that follows similar schemes in the Netherlands, Germany and the US.
The six students for the residential trial will be selected from the university’s nursing program, while a clinical study will run at the same time to see whether the regular socialisation of its different residents will have a measurable impact on the wellbeing of residents.