Agenda

TIME AGENDA
 Transforming Palliative and End of Life Care: Best Practices and New Models of Care
09:00 Opening Address
09:20 Keynote Address: Transforming End of Life Care and Palliative Care with International Best Practices
  • Gain an overview of the latest development in global palliative and end-of-life care efforts
  • Model after international best practices in delivering patient-centric EOL care
  • Discuss the future outlook of palliative and end-of-life care initiatives in Australia
GHAURI AGGARWAL
Elected Vice-President of the 17th Council, Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network;
Head of Department, Concord Centre for Palliative Care;
Chair of Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine
09:50 Palliative Care at the Doorstep: How an Improved Palliative Care Model can Improve EOL Care, Avoid Hospital Re-Admissions and Reduce Length of Stay
NIKKI JOHNSTON
Palliative Aged Care – Nurse Practitioner
Calvary Health Care
10:30 Morning Refreshments
PallTech: Supporting Palliative Care with Advances in Technologies
11:00 Improving Access of Palliative & Aged Care in Rural and Remote Settings in Australia through Remote Patient Monitoring and Tele-health 
  • How to overcome gaps in palliative care delivery to rural areas through technology-enabled care
  • Exploring the concept of uber-fication in aged care: Bringing doctors to patients
  • Addressing the challenges and road mapping the digital future of palliative & aged Care

DR ROB GRENFELL
Director
CSIRO’s Health & Biosecurity research

11:40 Managing Manpower Shortages in Palliative and Aged Care Facilities with Technologies 
  • Discover the practical applications of assistive technologies in facilitating palliative care
  • How to select functionally viable & affordable assistive technologies
  • Review the usage of mHealth and wearable technology
LEIGH DONOGHUE
Managing Director, Health ANZ 
Accenture
12:20 Lunch & Networking
13:20 Digital Assisted Living – Lessons from recent trials using Low-Cost IoT Sensors 
Overview of our Digital Assisted Living platform

  • Core design considerations and motivation for these choices
  • Feedback and Insights from trials
  • Lessons learnt and recommendations
RAJESH VASA
Deputy Director, Deakin Software and Technology Innovation Laboratory;
Head of R&D, Swinburne NICTA Software Innovation Lab
 Advances in Pain Management with Palliative Care
14:00 Management of Complex Pain in Palliative Care
  • Advancement in pain management
  • Other alternatives to complex pain management
14:30 Advances in Assistive Technology in Managing Pain and Real-Time Monitoring Among Older People
  • Discover how technology come into play to reduce pain level among elderly
  • How technology can be used to produce a reliable environment to ensure patient safety
  • The PainChek application
PHILIP DAFFAS
CEO
PainChek
15:00 Afternoon Refreshments
Planning End of Life Care
15:30 Overcoming Difficult End of Life Conversations
  • How to initiate the elephant in the room conversation with your patients
  • How to normalize and engage in meaningful conversations about life, ageing and death with senior citizens
  • Introduce a holistic, personalized and interactive palliative care
ROSE DILLON
Strategic Partnerships Manager
LifeCircle
16:00 Delivering Best Practices in Palliative Care by Incorporating Psychosocial, Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Needs
ANDREW ALLSOP
Social Worker 
Palliative Care
16:30 Roundtable Discussions: Increasing Access of Palliative Care for the Diversity Groups
Table A: Delivering Inclusive Palliative Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Table B: Delivering Inclusive Palliative Care for CALD

  • Exploring Cultural Practices during the EOL Experiences for Maori People in Australia
DR MELISSA CAREY
Senior Lecturer (Nursing)
University of Southern Queensland
DR TESS MOEKE – MAXWELL
Research Fellow
University of Auckland
Table C: Delivering Inclusive Palliative Care for LGBTI 
SAMANTHA EDMONDS
Nation Project Manager
Silver Rainbow
17:00 Closing Remarks by Chairperson
17:10 Champagne Networking 
 Champagne Networking Session Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.
TIME AGENDA
Designing a Sustainable Aged Care Model
09:00 Introduction and Day 2 Highlights by Chairperson 
09:10 Keys to the Future: Meaning-Centred Care
  • Learn how to integrate meaningful choices in consumer directed care
  • Develop a sustainable workforce
ILSA HAMPTON
CEO
Meaningful Ageing Australia
09:50 Assessing the Effectiveness of Community Aged Care Services to Improve Elderly Well-Being and Outcomes
  • Information Communication Technology as an enabler of integrated community aged care services
  • Employing social engagement tools for the delivery of quality person-centered services
  • Designing, implementing and evaluating services that lead to successful ageing
ANDREW GEORGIOU
Professor of Centre for Health Systems & Safety Research
Macquarie University
10:30 Morning Refreshments
11:00 Improving Aged Care Delivery for Rural and Remote, LGBTI, CALD, Indigenous Older People Living with Disability, Those With Mental Health Needs or People Who Are Socially Isolated 
  • Understand resiliency at old age & what does it mean to age-in-place in the community
  • How ageing Australians live independently in the comfort of their own home
  • A study of extraordinary people ageing in place in a remote rural community
FIONA HEATHER PATTEN
Member of Parliament
Victoria
11:30 Review of Single Aged Care Quality Framework and Updates on National Aged Care Taskforce
  • Assess trends, emerging issues and potential scenarios relevant to the current and future aged care workforce
  • Gain insights on a wide-ranging workforce strategy focused on supporting safe and quality aged care for senior Australians
  • Catch up on the latest Australian government’s aged care reform plans
AMY LAFFAN
Assistant Secretary
Aged Care Quality and Regulatory Reform Branch
12:15 Lunch & Networking
13:15 Panel Discussion: Preventing Elder Abuse by Providing Safe & Quality Aged Care for Senior Australians
  • Understand the different types of elder abuse: physical, financial, emotional
  • How to recognize and prevent them
  • Co-create solutions to stop elder abuse
TIM HUMPHRIES
Chief Executive Officer
Homestyle Aged Care Services
LISA CLINNICK
Director Aged Care Services
Ballarat Health Services
13:45 ACFI & the Future of Residential Aged Care Funding Improving Financial Sustainability of Aged Care Services
  • Overcoming challenges in Aged Care Funding Instruments (ACFI)
  • Learn how to design effective fundraising & marketing tactics for your aged care organization
  • Explore alternative payment models & financial resourcing that aligns with your organization’s missions and goals
ROBERT COVINO
Executive Director
Mirus
Harnessing Technologies to Improve Aged Care
14:15 Age In Place, Patient Centred Care and the role of Technology
  • Increase the adoption of assistive technology among the elderly
  • How to identify the right assistive technology for your elders
SIMON BOND
Director
BHS
14:45 Re-Purposing Smart Technologies to Meet the Needs of Ageing Australians 
  • Find out the latest technology and innovation in Australia’s aged care
  • Encouraging independent ageing by utilizing assistive technology in aged care
  • Case Study: Feros Care
ANTHONY BACON
Lifelink Operations Manager
Feros Care
15:15 Afternoon Refreshments
15:30 Future of Aged Care Workforce: Managing Manpower Shortages in Aged Care Facilities with Digital Assistive Technologies and Robotic Nurse
  • Increase the Adoption of Assistive Technology among the elderly
  • How to identify the right assistive technology for your elder
NICCI ROSSOUW
CEO
Exaptec
Empowering Your Workforce to Enhance Delivery of Aged Care
16:00 Fostering Teamwork Among Multidisciplinary Aged Care Staff to Ensure Better Aged Care Delivery
  • Managing challenging behaviours that are exhibited by aged care facility residents involves complex decision making process that should reflect a person centred approach to care
  • Decisions regarding the most appropriate behaviour management intervention requires individual knowledge of the resident and knowledge of a number of strategies, as no two residents are identical
  • This presentation will introduce a new mobile application called iSeeB which assists care staff during the behavioural assessment and intervention implementation and provides the decision support capable of individualising recommendations and feedback
LISA CLINNICK
Director Aged Care Services
Ballarat Health Services 
16:30 Increasing Aged Caregivers’ Resiliency with Grief & Bereavement Programs
  • Providing supportive grief & bereavement programs for carers & patients’ families
CATHERINE CINI
CEO
Griefline Community & Family Services
17:00 Closing Remarks by Chairperson
17:10 Champagne Networking 
Champagne Networking Session Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

 

TIME AGENDA
Improving the Quality of Life of People Living with Dementia
09:00 Introduction and Day 3 Highlights by Chairperson 
09:15 Australia’s First Dementia Village: Korongee Village Case Study
  • How Australia’s first dementia village offers innovative model of care
  • Insights into the Australia’s first Dementia Village
LUCY O’FLAHERTY
CEO
Glenview Community Services
10:00 How Training and Mentorship Can Help Build a Person-Centred Approach in Dementia Care
Michelle Harris Allsop
Co-Director
Care Partnerships Australia
10:40 Morning Refreshments
Implementing Innovative Models of Dementia Care for Better Outcomes
11:00 Group Homes Australia (GHA)’s Model of Care – Doing Dementia Differently
  • Living through EOL – Dying Differently
TAMAR KREBS
Founder & CEO
Group Homes Australia
11:30 Applying Person-Centered Approach in Dementia Care
  • Structure of the National DBMAS and SBRT programmes
  • Model of Care
  • Service Outcomes
STEVE MACFARLANE
Chairman, Binational (Aus & NZ) Faculty of Old Age Pschiatry;
Head of Clinical Services, The Dementia Centre, HammondCare
12:10 Lunch & Networking
Merging Technology & Human Touch in Caring for People with Dementia
13:10 A Better Visit
  • Overview of VR Technology in Dementia Care
  • Details and results of the project – “A Better Visit”
DR TANYA PETROVICH
Business Innovation Manager, Centre for Dementia Learning
Dementia Australia
13:50 The Dementia Care In Hospital Program: Evaluation of Treehouse @ Kyneton District Health
KATHY KIRBY
Program Manager
Kyneton District Health
14:20 Applying Intelligent Assistive Technology Applications to Dementia Care
  • Utilising web-based real-time monitoring challenging behaviours
  • How modern technology is supporting carers of care recipients with dementia or functional mental illness
  • How to deliver person-centered care and engagement via technology of residents with dementia in aged care faciltiies
MAREE MCCABE
CEO, Dementia Australia;
Secretary, Dementia Australia Research Foundation
15:00 Afternoon Refreshments
15:30 Explore Novel Therapies: Dementia and Perofrmance Art; a Resource for Communication, Expression and Play
ALTHEA GORDON
Artistic Director
Mind the Change Inc
16:00 Innovating Dementia Care in Residential Aged Care through Award Winning ABLE Model
  • The ABLE Model of care demonstrates the importance of right care at the right time and right place when enabling a meaningful life for people living with the condition of dementia
  • Engaging family members/significant others within the journey has been a positive influence in achieving this model of care
  • Supporting residents to be more engaged, active and fulfilled is having a positive impact on a ‘good’ life
WENDY WALTERS
Aged-care manager, Director Member Board
Rural Northwest Health
KAYE KNIGHT
Manager, Education & Research
Rural Northwest Health
16:30 Panel Discussion: How Elders & Dementia Patients Live Together by Creating a Dementia-Friendly Community
  • Investing in research and how we can strengthen translation into policy and practice
  • Implementing evidence into practice for best dementia care
  • Ensuring best practice in sustainability, innovation & quality in dementia care
WENDY WALTERS
Aged-care manager, Director Member Board
Rural Northwest Health
DR TANYA PETROVICH
Business Innovation Manager, Centre for Dementia Learning
Dementia Australia
17:00 Closing Remarks by Chairperson