ARIIA announces final innovation webinars for 2024
Last updated on 28 October 2024
Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation (ARIIA) is hosting its final innovation webinars for the year. These will showcase two important topics: innovative solutions for regional aged care and workforce upskilling around dementia support.
The ARIIA webinar series Showcasing ARIIA Grant Project Outcomes aims to highlight the transformative outcomes, key findings, and next steps of the innovative projects funded by the ARIIA Grant program.
What: Transforming regional aged care: Delivering values-based care and community-based solutions
When: Wednesday October 30, 1:00pm AEDT
In this session, ARIIA explores innovative approaches to transforming regional aged care: through the delivery of values-based care and community-based solutions. Two projects will be covered in this session.
The first is Kutjukata ngurra nyaku ntjakula – ‘One last look’.
Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, also known as Purple House, partnered with the NT Health Department Territory Palliative Care and Australian National University to deliver a pilot program that provided community-based palliative care for Indigenous patients with end-stage renal disease.
The project aimed to reduce hospital pressures and improve care quality by allowing patients the option to return home to their remote community, either temporarily or until they pass away. It also included the exploration of benefits by including remote aged care and primary healthcare facilities in the process.
Purple House CEO Sarah Brown will update webinar viewers on Wednesday.
Additionally, Bay and Basin Community Resources (BCR Communities) partnered with ExSitu, University of Wollongong and Carers NSW for their Regional Provider Blueprint for Developing a Values-Based Culture and Values-Driven Care Plans through Engagement, Empowerment and Technology project.
This project addresses the unique challenges faced by ageing people living within regional areas. The goal is to connect communities and therefore alleviate loneliness, reduce social isolation and improve mental health and well-being.
BCD Communities and its online branch provided lifestyle activities driven by participant values and interests that were also targeted at community members in the broader community.
Individualised care plans were created and delivered by a frontline workforce trained in values-driven care, supporting empowerment and self-efficacy to achieve wellness and reablement.
BCR Communities CEO Heather Marciano and Innovation Partner Rebecca Glover will recap the project’s progress.
What: Empowering care: Enhancing dementia support through ongoing engagement and learning
When: Wednesday November 27, 1:00pm AEDT
The final webinar in 2024 will explore innovative approaches helping to enhance the quality of care delivered to people living with dementia through meaningful engagement and workforce up-skilling.
South Australian aged care service provider ACH Group was supported by Flinders University to deliver the project Engagement Matters: Supporting aged care frontline staff to engage meaningfully with people with dementia in a sustainable and effective way.
This project supports frontline residential aged care staff to meaningfully engage with people living with dementia. It identified existing resources and methodologies used in practice and adapted them through a codesigned coaching/mentoring program.
Mentoring and coaching delivered by staff leaders promotes professional growth, organisational commitment, and the opportunity to build a sustainable team approach to person-centred dementia care.
ACH Group Learning and Development Business Partner Teresa Moran and Professor Lily Xiao will feature in the webinar.
Lastly, Dementia Australia’s Amanda Eddy-Lacey will discuss progress on their Using technology to transform workforce capability and capacity to improve the quality of care delivered to people living with dementia project.
Supported by BUPA Aged Care and Deakin University, the trio designed, developed and tested evidence-based enabling technologies learning tools for aged-care capacity development.
The goal is to create easy-to-recall scenarios that test choice and consequences when providing care. The training would be free and easily accessible.