Workshops
Please click on the links below to learn more:
- Workshop A: The A to Z of Aged Care Redesign
- Workshop B: How to Implement Best Practice Aged Care Services in the Community
- Workshop C: How to Recognise, Assess and Manage Dementia and Other Common Mental Disorders in a Busy Hospital Environment
- Workshop D: How to Implement Best Practice Clinical Decision Support and Assessment for Aged Care
Pre-Conference Workshops: 19 May, 2008
9.00am - 12:00pm Workshop A: The A to Z of Aged Care Redesign
Aged care professionals are facing major challenges with an increasing number
of older patients and are struggling with a growing pressure to deliver excellence.
Predictions show the population will continue to age in our time of affluence.
Therefore, the pressure upon your health service can only increase – with no
immediate sign of relief. As a health professional – you need to be equipped with
best practice examples and knowledge to counteract and prepare for this issue.
By attending this workshop you will learn how to develop new initiatives to
improve the efficiency of aged care and how to implement them.
- What are the needs of elderly patients and how can you meet them?
- How to streamline internal processes and to establish a framework to redesign aged care
- How to measure the impact of redesign?
- New developments in aged care
About your expert tutor:
Ian Yates is Chief Executive of the COUNCIL ON THE AGEING (COTA) in South Australia which has a membership of 20,000 seniors and around 300 seniors’ organisations. He is National Director and Secretary of the AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL ON THE AGEING. He is also the founder of COTA’s membership services company (insurance & Membership Services Ltd) of which he has been Chief Executive, Chair and currently Deputy Chair.
Ian has been involved in COTA leadership roles state and nationally since 1989 and is one of Australia’s leading ageing advocates. He is a Board member of the Aged Rights Advocacy Service, and serves on numerous State and Federal Government advisory bodies in both aged care and health.
In the health arena Ian is currently Deputy Chair of the Repatriation General Hospital in Adelaide, which specialises in veteran and older person’s care.
1.00pm - 4:00pm Workshop B: How to Implement Best Practice Aged Care Services in the Community
What impact does the Community have on the efficient of health facilities’?
You know that the community has a pivotal role and that its engagement can
significantly contribute to easing the pressure ageing patients place on health
facilities. But how do you strengthen relationships and partnerships with the
community? What are the ways to reach a coordinated approach and effective
collaboration? Learn from the journey of Dr. Goldswain in WA and gain new
ideas to implement in your organisation.
Engage in discussion and practical lessons around:
- What options are available?
- How can you implement the solutions and find the right solution for your health setting?
- Establishing objectives and meeting them
- How to avoid the most common mistakes
- Recent developments in aged care services in the community
About your expert tutor:
Dr. Peter Goldswain is currently the Divisional Director of Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Services, ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL, Clinical leader Aged Care Network in W.A. and Consultant Geriatrician for Royal Perth and Mercy Hospitals. He has been involved in rehabilitation and aged care services in Western Australia since 1978, providing leadership within the public health care sector in the areas of research and strategic development for health services. Dr Goldswain is active in the promotion of aged care services in the community and is currently a member of the WA Aged Care Advisory Group, responsible for the development of the State Aged Care Plan for Western Australia (2003-2008), and is editing the State Rehabilitation Plan (2006). He has been director of the Fractured Hip Unit at Shenton Park campus of RPH since 1979.
Post-Conference Workshops: 22 May, 2008
9.00am - 12:00pm Workshop C: How to Recognise, Assess and Manage Dementia and Other Common Mental Disorders in a Busy Hospital Environment
Assessing, managing and treating Dementia and Delirium bring their own sets
of challenges to hospital staff, and of course, to hospital flow systems too. Staff
struggles to deal with older patients affected by Dementia and Delirium and
doesn’t respond adequately to the special needs of patients affected by these
diseases. These patients need medical and psychological support. Often facilities
don’t deliver the right care and the staff don’t receive the right training.
Dr. David Anderson will outline step by step initiatives for delivering the
benchmark in care, illustrating his experience from the UK.
- Providing best practice to minimise onset of other conditions
- Effective models of mental health care in hospitals
- The benefits of specialist wards and suites for mental disorders in late life
- Setting up specific training for the staff
About your expert tutor:
David Anderson is Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist & Associate
Medical Director with MERSEY CARE NHS TRUST in Liverpool. He
is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of
Liverpool & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with the Royal Liverpool University
& Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust.
His special interest is liaison psychiatry for older people and the interface
between physical medicine & psychiatry. He has developed the first
multidisciplinary liaison mental health team in the UK based in the Royal
Liverpool University Hospital that has become a national model. He chaired
the Royal College of Psychiatrists working group producing the first national
guidelines on the development of liaison psychiatry services for older people
(Who Cares Wins). He has influenced national policy development in this area.
He represented the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the NICE Guideline
Development Group for Parkinson’s disease and is a member of the NICE
Mental Health Topic Selection Group. He also represented the Royal College of
Psychiatrists at the Appeal against the NICE Appraisal on the use of cognitive
enhancing drugs for Alzheimer’s disease.
He is currently Chair of Old Age Psychiatry, The Royal College of Psychiatrists.
1.00pm - 4:00pm Workshop D: How to Implement Best Practice Clinical Decision Support and Assessment for Aged Care
Would you like to be able to enhance the quality of care and clinical decision
making for ageing patients? Clinical decision support provides clinicians, staff
and patients with knowledge and person-specific information to enhance health
and health care and improve efficiency and accuracy.
Yet, many strategies for providing clinical decision support have failed. Why is
that? A common problem is that timely and easy access to information that is
current and relevant to specific clinical questions has not been provided or made
available. In addition, standard assessments have not been established, making
it incredibly difficult for you and all of your staff. Meeting these challenges
involves an understanding of the specific information needs of medical
practitioners and the nature of medical decision-making under uncertainty
and specific to older people. Professor Gray will discuss the challenges and
opportunities of introducing standard assessment and management procedures
for older people.
Specific Interaction and group learning will be focussed around the following areas:
- How to reform of assessment processes
- How standardised approaches can enhance quality and improve efficiency
- The potential of online assessment systems
- Strategies and practice models to provide assessment and advice through ehealth and telemedicine specifically related to aged care
About your expert tutor:
Professor Len Gray is the Professor of Geriatrics Medicine at the UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND. His career has encompassed extensive experience in health services management with a major focus on aged care facilities and programs, the management of public sector specialist aged care services in metropolitan Victoria as well as clinical services to the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Redland Hospital in Brisbane. Professor Gray’s work includes extensive analysis of the performance of the Aged care Act 1997 (1997) and a review of the National Strategy for an Ageing Australia on behalf of the national Office for an Ageing Australia (2003). He currently leads international development of the acute care toolset on behalf of interRAI. His current work focuses on clinical decision support systems for aged care, e-health applications and tele-geriatrics.
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