The inaugural Constructive Ageing Summit gives the platform that reablement, restorative care and allied well being wants to maneuver in the direction of extra positively aged older adults in Australia, mentioned convention advisor Dr Tim Henwood because the two-day occasion kicks off in Adelaide on Wednesday.
The summit has drawn round 250 members to the Adelaide Hilton for a packed program of evidence-based info and allied health-driven methods that goal to enhance the well being, wellbeing and high quality of lifetime of older Australians.
With reablement that includes strongly within the incoming aged care reforms, together with Help at House, the Constructive Ageing Summit is a vital occasion, mentioned Dr Tim Henwood, principal guide at AgeFIT Options.
“We’re lastly beginning a dialog, aren’t we?” Dr Henwood instructed Australian Ageing Agenda.
“There’s a entire group of likeminded individuals who both already belief within the proof or need to imagine within the proof, who’re coming collectively,” mentioned Dr Henwood, who has many years of expertise publishing tutorial and sector publications and implementing focused train packages for seniors in group and residential aged care settings.
“Hopefully that is a part of the groundswell that reablement, restorative care and allied well being wants in order that we will see higher, extra positively aged older adults in Australia.”
Wednesday’s program opens with Affiliate Professor Justin Keogh from Bond College delivering a keynote on a holistic approach to healthy ageing adopted by Australia’s Chief Allied Well being Officer Anita Hobson-Powell discussing how present reforms are shaping the sector, and the important thing modifications wanted to embed reablement and wellness into on a regular basis aged care.
There are additionally panel discussions overcoming limitations to implementation in addition to classes on falls preventions, higher dying and decreasing social isolation.
Delegates will be capable of take away sensible options, mentioned Dr Henwood.
“It doesn’t should be one thing huge, like a giant intervention that may change a shopper’s life or change an organisation’s profile. I believe it may be just a bit thought the place they assume I can take this and I can embed it into my very own follow and make it work for my purchasers.”
Dr Henwood is showing on a panel of consultants on Wednesday afternoon discussing reablement and restorative care throughout the sector. Moderated by LPA managing director Lorraine Poulos, the panel consists of Dr Claire Gough, analysis fellow, Aged Care Analysis & Trade Innovation Australia and Simon Kerrigan, managing director at Information Healthcare. The dialogue will cowl government-funded tips for brand new packages, discover the dangers of inaction and the best alternatives for bettering wellbeing and care outcomes for older adults.
As a longtime advocate for constructive ageing methods, Dr Henwood is hopeful the aged care sector more and more sees the worth in becoming a member of the rising motion.
“My entire life has been standing on a soapbox making an attempt to get this on the market. I believe it’s the reply, however it’s been washed away by therapies, cares, medicines and issues like that for many years and many years. I’m hoping extra individuals will begin to see that that is both the reply or it’s a part of the reply for his or her purchasers, and we’ll see extra of this form of follow embedded into individuals’s remedy plans.”
Constructive Ageing Summit is an initiative of Australian Ageing Agenda and Neighborhood Care Evaluation – discover out extra on the Positive Ageing Summit 2025 website
