Post-Conference Workshops

Wednesday 22nd June: 9:00am-4:00pm

* Please note that the morning and afternoon workshops are designed to compliment each other. While you are welcome to book a single workshop, in order to get the most out of the day we would recommend attending both the morning and afternoon sections

Part A: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Health Promotion: The Way Forward For Aged Care

In the first half of this workshop participants will:

• Explore the rationale behind the WHO's Ottawa Charter and the 5 standards for health promotion
• Understand the context of the Healthy Ageing framework for aged care service delivery
• Identify the key components of the Healthy Ageing Framework; health policy and procedures, the model of wellbeing - Partners in Positive Ageing
• Explore definitions around healthy, positive and active ageing

Model of Wellbeing and Pathways to Re-Orientation of Services

Assessment and interventions for rehabilitation, prevention and health promotion In the second half of the workshop participants will explore:

• 6 key understandings for wellbeing for residents and staff - a life course model
• The core feature - Active Ageing - how it works to prevent falls/and assist to help older people bounce back from adversity
• How do we know? - Collect the data - through various tools
• How do we use the data? - Analyse through the Early Intervention Working party
• Explore monitoring/ evaluation processes appropriate to interventions to reach target outcomes

Jo Boylan, Doctorate Student Public Health, Senior Manager of Northern Residential Services, ACH Group

Part B: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Strength for Life/Living Longer Living Stronger Transition and Integration

A model of pathways for community and residential care

• Demonstrate overview the SFL/ LLLS model including differences from state to state plus how the models work with GPs and allied health
• How we have integrated from mainstream into residential
• The transition of rehabilitation into mainstream which would also demonstrate the differences between a rehabilitation service and residential care
• Requirements of staff – training, updates etc

Better Balanced - integration of falls prevention initiatives

• Integration of Better Balance – falls prevention into the program
• Promotion, engagement of participants
• Benefits of program for participants including evidence from evaluation done on programs

Jeanette Richards, Project Officer – Strength for Life, Council on the Ageing (COTA)