Improving Palliative Care in Residential Aged Care Using Telehealth: Protocol for a Realist Process Evaluation Embedded in a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Kayla Lock   ^{1, 2} , BDevtSt, MstInterDevPractice ;   Anita M Y Goh   ^{1, 2, 3} , BSc, DPsych ;   Katrin Gerber   ^{2, 4, 5} , BPsych, MPsych, PhD ;   Joanne Tropea   ^{1, 6} , BPhysio, MPH, PhD ;   Kirsten Moore   ^{1, 2} , BA, PhD ;   Wen Kwang Lim   ^{1, 2, 6} , MBBS, MD

¹ Department of Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

² National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

³ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Department of Aged Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia