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Research
Qualitative Social and Anthropological Research - Written and CD Audio/S-VHS/DVD/ROM formats Interviews Data Analysis
Pamser Productions specialises in qualitative social research projects, including all aspects of background research, data collection, analysis and outcome reporting. Research findings and reports are provided in either a written or, increasingly popular, DVD or other digital formats. Our strength is our focus on using film as a research tool. Filmed investigations help to ensure authenticity and a reliability of data. In consultation with the client, detailed preliminary groundwork is followed through on, specific needs and goals assessed and targeted in-depth interviews undertaken.
Research is an invaluable investment for any organsiation. With the ability to investigate at the grassroots level, qualitative research allows an organisation to pinpoint with accuracy its strengths and its points of weakness, and from there, make informed decisions for internal improvement and long-term profit.
Reports in a DVD or CD-ROM format are an enduring resource for an organisation to use for promotional purposes. With these DVDs you can demonstrate your organisation's commitment to self-evaluation and continuous improvement. They are also perfectly placed for use as teaching tools for in-house staff training - the power of the visual format to convey information is well-documented.
Completed Research Projects 2004 'Sea Legs' The Art Of Ageing And Wellbeing This short film investigates the positive impact of drama therapy in the lives of people living in a Melbourne aged-care facility. The research methodology combined individual in-depth interviews with recordings of drama group rehearsals to produce a written paper and short film for presentations at conferences in the aged care and qualitative research sectors. Social science-based research projects such as this can be used to promote the lifestyle component in quality of care in aged care facilities, and to meet specific criteria in accreditation audits.
2005 'From Breath To Voice' Ageing, Participation, Wellbeing A project undertaken for conference presentations in the aged and community care sectors, 'From Breath To Voice' focuses on an inter-generational choir that meets in a Melbourne high-level care nursing home. Interviews with residents, school students and family members and excerpts from the group in action was the methodology used to produce a documentary that investigates and highlights the benefits of inter-generational communication, in a creative arts-based context. Primarily specified for external conference presentation, this project is ideal to support internal site audits linked with the accreditation process and Better Practice Awards in the aged care sector. In terms of lifestyle programs in care settings, internal research projects are evidence-based examples of continuous improvement and self-evaluation.
2005 'Patricia Jackson Dementia & Identity Integrity' Designed as an aid to recreation and lifestyle program planning for people with Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease, this short film is a case study of 'ageing with meaning'. It follows several months in the life of a woman who was assisted to remain living in her own home as her cognitive abilities declined. An individually designed program aimed to maintain her identity integrity through drawing on and maintaining, to whatever degree possible, her life's interests and passions. It highlights a philosophy that is underpinned by a belief that increasing cognitive decline does not need to stand in the way of individual lifestyle program planning that provides for who someone was and who they are now. This film is an ideal tool for use by groups or individuals who care for people with Dementia whether they are living at home or in residential care facilities.
2007 'Blossom from Babel - Maintaining identity integrity for ageing migrants in a high-level care setting' 'Blossom from Babel' is a short film that focuses on communication strategies between culturally and linguistically diverse residents and staff members at a Melbourne high-level care nursing home. This film presents the reality and the future of our ageing population. With a potential 'Babel' situation of up to a dozen different languages, we see examples of how residents have helped to teach the staff to speak their languages and how this in turn has created genuine junctures of happiness, love, pride and enhanced emotional wellbeing for the residents through their role as teachers. It demonstrates how the boundaries that fix people according to physical and cognitive illness and that divide people in terms of health professional and resident can be blurred and how the inversion of traditional relationships in a high-level care context can contribute to maintaining the identity integrity of people who must live with incremental physical and cognitive losses compounded by the daily challenges of living in another language. Prepared as a presentation for the Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Ageing 2007 National Conference, the film can also be used as a teaching tool for any individuals working in the aged care sector.
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