Part 1: 9 am | Join Hume Region Palliative Care Consortium and explore some of the complexities of pain management and family dynamics through a dramatised case study. Part 2: 11.30 am (Limited places for part 2) | A workshop exploring grief, self-care, and collective care in the residential aged care setting.
The lecture will be delivered at Parliament House by a national leader in palliative care, Dr Michael Chapman, Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital and Lead of the Palliative Care Research Unit at Clare Holland House. In line with this year’s theme, Getting to the heart of it: Big Questions. Real Answers, Michael will …
Webinar 6: Principle 4 – Connect with community This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn how environments can help older people maintain meaningful connections.
This year, PCV is delighted to collaborate with colleagues from the disability sector, the First Nations health sector, and the aged care and dementia sectors to deliver a multi stream comprehensive day of interactive learning.
Managed by the Victorian Department of Health through the Commonwealth Government’s Strengthening Medicare – Supporting Older Australians initiative, the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) at La Trobe University will be holding 140 three-day workshops for nurses who work in all Victorian residential aged care services. The workshop includes interactive, hands-on skills development, …
Interactive case-based virtual mentoring sessions that address a range of palliative care topics. Discussion of deidentified patient cases and 10-minute lectures aim to increase palliative care knowledge, skills and confidence in primary care health professionals. Currently, monthly sessions are held via Zoom on the third Tuesday of every month – 1pm to 2pm (AEST).
In this member-exclusive webinar, we explore the evolving realities of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) within inpatient palliative care settings.
Join this monthly deep dive into the National Palliative Care Standards, and explore one standard in detail and discuss ways to embed it into everyday practice. In May, the focus is on Standard Four: Providing Care. This standard emphasises that effective care enables the person to live as well as possible, to the end of …
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How aged care providers can support older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Join this 45-minute mini-webinar where speakers from Settlement Services International (SSI) will discuss the services they provide in their Gambling Harm Prevention Program, as well as highlight some key aspects of gambling harm and how to support those affected—particularly older people …
The Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults This presentation outlines the neuropsychological symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia. Dr Smith explores changes that can occur in cognition, social cognition, behaviour …
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