AusHCGNE webinar recordings
Online presentation: The use of digital serious games and gamified resources in promoting the care of older people in nurse education
WEBINAR: Curricula content on care of older people and academic leadership: Encouraging students to consider a gerontological career
Join our panel as they discuss emerging issues in aged care clinical placements and explore future directions for improvement.
SEE THE VIDEOAn academic journey in healthy ageing and aged care
Dr Karen Watson outlines her academic journey in health ageing and aged care. She’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities and conclude with a look to the future for upskilling, informal and professional carers, and the use of assisted technology to support healthy ageing.
SEE THE VIDEOGerontological nursing: Challenges and opportunities
Adjunct Professor Debra Thoms will discusses the challenges facing gerontological nursing, consider our opportunities to use nurses with specialist gerontological knowledge and expertise more effectively, and suggests how we might grow this much-needed workforce.
SEE THE VIDEOHot, smelly, sore and confused: Creating systems to enable nurses to be close enough to older patients to prevent and treat complications in hospital
Professor Kasia Bail examines contributing factors such as nurse care rationing of fundamental care for older people; systemic emphasis on low incidence, high-cost complications; and clinical governance orientation on risk assessment rather than prophylactic interventions. She also explores strategies to minimise hospitals and nurses 'failing to maintain' older patients in hospital.
SEE THE VIDEOPain assessment and management in older people living with dementia
Dr LihuiPu discusses evidence-based practice to improve pain assessment and management for older people living with dementia. We will also share the use of innovative technologies to support pain in dementia care.
SEE THE VIDEOWho cares for the carer? Using co-design to develop a dedicated support service for older carers of older people
Associate Professor Slatyer presents research that used co-design principles that led to a novel service model for older carers. She will also provide an overview of key positive factors contributing to the support of older carers’ health and wellbeing.
SEE THE VIDEOThe iSupport Program: Cultural adaptation, trials and knowledge translation
iSupport is a skills and training program for carers of people with dementia. Professor Lily Xiao will introduce fundamental research projects undertaken in Australia and internationally to adapt and embed the World Health Organization’s iSupport for Dementia Program in health and aged care services.
SEE THE VIDEOThe journey of people with dementia and their carers in the last year of life
Adjunct Professor Sarah Jeong presents the findings from multidisciplinary, clinician-led research that aimed to investigate the end-of-life care journey for people with dementia and their carers and develop an optimal model of care for them.
SEE THE VIDEOMyth busting: Dispelling the myths of ageing, palliative care and spirituality
Associate Professor Ann Harrington dispels some of the myths about ageing, palliative care and spirituality.
SEE THE VIDEODementia rehabilitation: Evidence, realities and local and global initiatives for best practices
Professor Yun-Hee Jeon provides key insights into the latest evidence on dementia rehabilitation and current local and global initiatives for best practices.
SEE THE VIDEO