Aged Care Quality Improvement seminar - 25 & 26 June 2008

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Overview

Managing common and challenging care issues in residential aged care

The effects of ageing and congregate living means that older frail people residing in aged care facilities are at an increased risk of falls, dehydration, and infectious diseases such as gastroenteritis and influenza. An increased prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) in the broader community also means an increased incidence of these within aged care facilities.

This two day Department of Human Services Aged Care Branch seminar was presented in conjunction with the Public Health Branch and the Statewide Emergency Program, for all residential aged care services in Victoria.

The seminar provided a great opportunity to increase understanding and improve responses to the management of infectious diseases, falls and dehydration, explore the development of an organisational risk management framework, promote positive engagement and partnerships with general practitioners and consider important approaches to effective leadership.

We wish to thank the speakers for providing us with the opportunity to share their presentations with you.

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Agenda (238kb, pdf)

A Reason to Panic or Business as Usual? Communicable Diseases in Aged Care Facilities (454kb, pdf)
Dr Rosemary Lester, Acting Chief Health Officer for Victoria, Department of Human Services

Emergency Department Interface with Residential Aged Care Facilities (128kb, pdf)
Dr Margaret Grigg, Manager, Statewide Emergency, Critical Care and Surgical Services

Managing Acute Infections in Aged Care - A Clinician's View (520kb, pdf)
Dr Patrick Charles, Physician, Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health

Infection Control - Everybody's Business (94kb, pdf)
Miss Michele Cullen, Infection Control Consultant, Department of Human Services

Dehydration – The Hidden Epidemic (217kb, pdf)
Professor Joseph E Ibrahim Aged Care Medicine, Monash University

Falls Prevention - Fact, Fiction and the Future (541kb, pdf)
Dr Jenny Schwarz, Consultant Geriatrician, Sunshine Hospital, Western Health

What Risk? (546kb, pdf)
Dr Heather Wellington, Consultant to the health law team at DLA Phillips Fox

Positive GP Partnerships - Rhetoric or Reality (87kb, pdf)
Dr Wendy Bissinger, Deputy Chair, General Practice Victoria and Chair of State Reference Committee for Aged Care Panels project

• Asthma action plan (49kb, pdf)
• Checklist / Audit of GP requirements (181kb, MS Word)
• Chest Pain Management action plan (59kb, pdf)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) action plan (34kb, pdf)
• CVA (Stroke) / TIA action plan (39kb, pdf)
• Equipment list (GP Furniture and Equipment Guidelines for Residential Aged Care Facilities) (121kb, MS Word)
• Falls Notification (137kb, MS Word)
• Following a resident's fall action plan (34kb, pdf)
• GP Communication and Work arrangements (232kb, MS Word)
• GP Patient register (134kb, MS Word)
• GP Welcome pack (270kb, MS Word)
• Heart Failure (CHF) action plan (37kb, pdf)
• Hypoglycaemia information - low blood sugar (48kb, pdf)
• Incident Form for Reporting a Resident's Fall (33kb, MS Word)
• Urinary tract infection (UTI) action plan (33kb, pdf)

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