Staff profile

Ms Karen Teshuva

Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Health Sciences Research Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BScAgr Melb., MPH Hebrew University Jerusalem, Dip Ed (ESL)

Membership of professional Associations

Australasian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Area of study

Ageing and aged care

Brief Profile

Ms Karen Teshuva has been working in the field of gerontology since 1987. She has undertaken a senior role in a variety of research projects and consultancies in AIPCA since 1992. Karen has managed large-scale multidisciplinary survey-based research and qualitative research studies. She has evaluated aged care services and healthy ageing interventions. She has conducted literature reviews and research in a vast number of areas including models of aged care service delivery, family care, physical activity, eating patterns, cultural diversity, social inclusion, older adult learning, and spirituality. Karen’s  research projects include: ‘Health Status for Older People’, ‘Caring for Older Survivors of Genocide and Mass Trauma’ and ‘Outcomes for Older People with Complex and Chronic Conditions’ and ‘Supportive Communities for Older People.’ As curriculum developer for the postgraduate courses in gerontology at La Trobe University, Karen has an extensive knowledge of the key and the current theoretical, policy, and practice literature relating to healthy ageing and wellbeing in later life and age-friendly communities. Karen is also a member of the Victorian Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS) Evaluation Unit, liaising with the ACAS managers and government on a regular basis and coordinating the collection and reporting of the ACAS Minimum Data Set.

 

Research interests

Healthy Ageing

- Caring for older survivors of genocide

Recent Publications

 

Teshuva, K. and Wells, Y. Aged care for older survivors of genocide and mass trauma. (Accepted) Ageing and Society.  

Cowlishaw, S., Neile, S., Teshuva, K., and Browning, C. (2012). Older adults’ spirituality and subjective well-being: A longitudinal test of social support and sense of coherence as mediating mechanisms. Ageing and Society.  

Howe, A., King, D.S., Ellis, J., Wells, Y., Wei, Z., & Teshuva, K., 2012. Stabilising the aged care workforce: an analysis of worker retention and intention. Australian Health Review, 36(1), 83-91.  

Johnson, V. Teshuva, K., Nelms, L., Foreman, P. and Stanley, J. (2009) Social and health factors affecting community service use by vulnerable older people. Australian Social Work.   62:4, 507-524

Sims, J. Browning, C., Kendig, H. and Teshuva, K. (2009) Predictors of physical activity behaviour in older community-dwelling adults Journal of Allied Health, 38(1), 8-17   Teshuva, K., Russell, H. and Varanelli, L. (2008) The Victorian Aged Care Assessment Quality Improvement Framework. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 14(2), 73-81.