Resources

This workbook by The Wellness society provides tools and techniques for reducing stress and anxiety arising from the covid 19 pandemic.

Burnout is preventable. According to an article Harvard Business Review it requires good organizational hygiene, better data, asking more timely and relevant questions, smarter budgeting (more micro-budgeting), and ensuring that wellness offerings are included as part of your well-being strategy.

This tool by the Workplace Strategies for Mental Health can help you assess your work-related stress which can contribute to burnout. (Clicking on the link will download a PDF.)

Shona McQueen from Catholic Health Australia describes the work of End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC). This initiative, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, aims to improve the aged care workforce’s capacity to provide quality palliative and advance care planning.

In explaining the meaning of ‘meaningful activities’, Judith Leeson, Director of Vector Consultants, poses this question to her readers: How would you want to spend your days in residential aged care?

Despite a plethora of information on healthy ageing through reabling approaches, there continues to be an entrenched stereotype of individual ageing as an inevitable process of decline over which we have little control. Hilary O’Connell of iLA describes LiveUp—an initiative promoting early intervention to delay the decline of a person’s capacity to live or function independently.

Professor Josephine Clayton, Director of Palliative Care Research & Learning, HammondCare, describes the Advance Project Dementia Toolkit—a free online resource for clinicians, managers, and careworkers in aged care and primary care settings for building skills in initiating conversations about advance care planning and assessing the palliative care needs of people living with dementia.

In this blog, social anthropologist, Dr Angela Zhang, reflects on the question ‘can aged care residents experience a sense of wellbeing in the presence of disease and functional decline?'

In her blog, Dr Katrina Erny-Albrecht of the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying, Flinders University, introduces a range of new palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets for aged care workers, reflecting on the way these topics describe the very profound human experience of dying.

Palliative care is a fundamental component of general practice. All GPs who care for older people are engaging with issues their patients face towards the end of life.