Watch the Online symposium: Making person-centred care a reality

Chair: Dr Clair Burley

• Welcome and setting the scene
  • Professor Henry Brodaty & Professor Elizabeth Beattie – Co-directors, Dementia Centre for Research
• Person-centred care: Changing individuals, organisations, and systems
  • Professor Lee-Fay Low – Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney

Session 2

Chair: Dr Claire Burley

• Research initiatives that support making person-centred care a reality across Australia
  • Professor Lynn Chenowyeth – Centre for Health Brain Ageing, UNSW Sydney
• Government initiatives supporting person-centred care
  • Mr Robert Day – Dementia, Diversity and Design Branch, Australian Government Department of Health
• Perspectives of people with lived experience
  • Nell Hawe – Dementia Advocate, Dementia Australia
  • Mr Keith Davies and Mr Peter Swindell – Dementia Advocates, Dementia Australia

Session 3

Chair: Dr Nadeeka Dissanayaka 

• Achieving person-centred mental health care within Residential Aged Care: Co-design of a performance measurement tool
  • Ms Rachel Brimelow – The University of Queensland
• Trauma-informed inpatient geriatric care to improve staff skills and reduce patient distress: An interrupted-time series study
  • Dr Monica Cations – Flinders University
• Implementing and evaluating an on-line staff education program in person-centred care for persons with dementia in the sub-acute care setting
  • Ms Jacquelene Cook – UNSW Sydney
• Is it possible to ‘teach’ person-centred care? The example of Dementia Essentials
  • Professor Belinda Goodenough and Ms Alex Jedlicko – Dementia Training Australia and Dementia Australia

Session 4

Chair: Dr Claire Burley

• Let’s not stop at ‘person-centred’ care – we can do even better
  • Dr Gaynor Macdonald – University of Sydney
• Non-pharmacological interventions: Evidence from a national support program
  • Associate Professor Steve Macfarlane – The Dementia Centre
• Guidelines for dementia care: Awareness and current usage in residential aged care
  • Dr Nikki-Anne Wilson – Neuroscience Research Australia and DCRC
• Symposium summary and closing
  • Dr Claire Burley and Dr Nadeeka Dissanayaka