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Residential Medication Management Reviews (RMMR) are a key component of safe, high-quality aged care service delivery. The RMMR is an interdisciplinary approach to medication management that relies on collaboration, communication and integration of systems. Acting as an improvement opportunity, the purpose of this paper is to present findings from a regional study, aimed at assessing the impact of RMMR on falls and hospital admissions and identifies barriers to impactful research in this area.

A three-year retrospective quantitative longitudinal practice audit was conducted in a regional state-managed high-care residential facility in Queensland, Australia. Data was collected pre-RMMR and six months post-RMMR.

The data collected was insufficient to achieve statistical significance or demonstrate the impact of RMMR on health outcomes. Factors impeding the research included limited ability to collect the data due to the lack of integration of information systems and limited stakeholder engagement resulting in poor recruitment. This highlights the need for improvement in RMMR processes and practices, and indeed wider research collaboration in the aged care sector.

Thís paper acts as a call to action to improve research and interprofessional collaboration in Australian aged care.

The aged care industry needs high-quality research to drive practice improvement and collaborative care and service delivery. This paper advocates for improvements in the aged care sector with respect to research engagement and communication pathways between service providers. Advancement in systems integration for information sharing, recruitment of participants and stakeholder engagement will support evidence-based practice and process change.

This chapter situates our study of the organisation and regulation of prison life in Myanmar. With broad brush strokes, we introduce the country context and describe the pre-colonial and colonial history of Myanmar prisons. We unpack and justify the book’s core analytic themes, describing how we will answer questions about how authority is distributed and enacted within prisons; how power is embodied and embedded in mundane social and institutional relations; and how historical relations of penal duress endure (even) under conditions of socio-political transformation. Further, we introduce how our interview-based account of the organisation, regulation and experience of prison life during the (now terminated) transition from overt military rule to disciplined democracy provides crucial insight into the current situation of thousands of people from all walks of life imprisoned since the military coup in February 2021.