North Coast Allied Health Association invites you to register for a workshop that will explore important projects and policies for allied health professionals on the North Coast. Join colleagues to identify key challenges and solutions for better healthcare for older people. Morning tea and lunch included.
Speakers
Monika Wheeler, Acting CEO Healthy North Coast & Bron Mcrae, Deputy Director, Healthy Living & Ageing
Robyn Fitzroy, Director, Multidisciplinary Health – University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney
Dr Jennifer Hewitt, Physiotherapist and Educator, University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney
Topics covered
- Robyn Fitzroy will outline an exciting new aged care project that will in part focus on multidisciplinary training in local aged care settings in Casino, Kyogle and Bonalbo. The aim of this is to add value to existing training programs for health professionals and advocate for new approaches to aged care training and service provision in rural communities; as well as developing training centres/hubs and student accommodation alongside multi-disciplinary service-learning education to encourage greater numbers of students across more disciplines to become immersed in rural communities with high needs.
- Monika Wheeler will co-present with colleague Bronwyn McCrae to speak
about the development of a North Coast Healthy Living and Ageing Strategy, inclusive of insights from recently completed social research and systems dynamic modelling for the Strategy. They will also touch on initiatives from the recent Aged Care Royal Commission that Healthy North Coast have tasked to roll out in the region, and will draw on how these reforms as well as the Healthy Ageing Strategy are relevant in an allied health context.
- Dr Jennifer Hewitt will provide an analysis of the Commonwealth funding instrument for residential aged care facilities – the AN-ACC – including the opportunities it presents for allied health professionals to improve services for the elderly and the flow on implications for reform in residential aged care. She will highlight the need for allied health professions to develop evidence for their services to inform these new models of care; and will focus particularly on the development of best practice pain management, restorative care and falls prevention programs. Discussion will be encouraged around real-world practicalities, issues experienced in the transition, and next steps to be addressed to continue to advocate for residents’ access to best-practice allied health.
- Following the speakers, there will be an opportunity to join your allied health colleagues in identifying the key challenges for providing allied health services in aged care and workshopping solutions for a better healthcare system.
Cost
$40 NCAHA members
$60 Non-NCAHA members
$20 online participation
FREE for students
This event is proudly supported by University Centre for Rural Health