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