Annual Transition Care: Improving Outcomes for Older People 2013

This comprehensive program explores a combination of residential and community transition care programs. It also features case studies from a mix of passionate speakers who will share their experiences working in transitional aged care, including the challenges and successes of their work.

Conference Themes Include:

> Exploring the challenges of equity, access and choice from a state-wide perspective

> The concept of realistic goals and the importance of making decisions in collaboration with the patient, or more often with the family

> The findings of research studies towards delirium prevention

> Compare and contrast competing discourses of consumer rights in Australia

> An evaluation project from a client's perspective

> The benefits of a pharmacist role in TCP

> Community living for older adults: psychological strengths and health

> TCP models of care: What works and what are the challenges

> The benefits of a single service provider to seamlessly progress a client from residential transition care to transition community care

> Changing the system to work for all - Identifying what needs to be changed

> TCP pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

> Unique challenges of providing TACP in a rural area

> And much more...

Speaker Faculty Includes:

> Barbara Anderson, NSW Ministry of Health

> Dr. Jane Tolman, Tasmanian Health Organisation - South

> Isabel Higgins, University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Local Health District

> Amanda Humphreys, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

> Dean Byrnes, Gold Coast Hospital & Health Service

> Michele Anderson, Hunter New England Local Health District

> Kim Bailey, Hunter New England Local Health District

> Dianne Halliday, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

> Dr. Coralie Graham, University of Southern Queensland

> Carol Bartlett, Br