Thursday 5th November

8.30am-9.00am Registration

9.00am - 10.30am Round the Regions
Opportunity to learn about initiatives and projects from around NZ in hospital, community and aged residential care on older people’s health. Confirmed so far (please contact if you have something from your area that you’d like to present):

• Dr Stephen Chalcroft : Audit in Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation (ATR) Wards. Is it worth it?

• Louise ​Fowler & Kate O’Dwyer : ​Enhancing Nurses Critical Thinking and Communication in Aged Residential Care: A Tool That Seems To Be Working
• Dr Brendan Ng : Acute Frailty Service Development in the Time of COVID: The highs, lows and inbetweens of AHOP
• Emma Green : “Keeping Me Well” Community Enablement Strategy
• Dr Kate Scott : CHOPi: One Model for a Community Geriatrics Approach to Prefrailty and Frailty in the Face of Increasing Demand​​​

10.30am-11.00am Morning Tea Break

11.00am - 12.15pm

• Dr Tim Frendin : Impact of Frailty on Outcomes for Older People following the Havelock North Campylobacter Outbreak
• Chaired discussion: Dr Lucy Fergus, Dr Val Fletcher : Our Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Our Aged Population

12.15pm - 1.00pm Lunch Break

​1.00pm - 1.45pm 

• Dr Bronwyn Copeland & Dr Fiona Miller : Capacity Assessments

1.45pm - 2.30pm 

• Dr Bronwyn Copeland & Dr Jo Cole : SMO Burnout Study

2.30pm-3.00pm Afternoon Tea Break

3.00pm - 3.45pm 

• Dr Ruth Large : Telehealth 

3.45pm - 4.45pm 

•        Dr Graham Gulbransen : Medicinal Cannabis

5.00pm - 7.00pm Mount Maunganui Bowling Club – join us for a game and drink 
7.00pm - 9.30pm followed by dinner at Fire Mount Maunganui