Connecting the pieces - A diversity, wellness & reablement podcast
The Eastern Sector Development Team host conversations about inclusive and responsive aged care services. We promote an intersectional approach to service delivery that recognises and responds to consumers diversity, their preferences, lived experiences and supports them to be empowered and active participants in their care. Our podcasts will explore person-centred care through a wellness and reablement model that is intrinsically aligned to progressive and inclusive diversity practice.
Episodes
23 episodes
Clinical / Care governance frameworks in community aged care: Everybody’s Business!
Clinical Governance is fundamental to maintaining and improving the quality of care provided. It encompasses the frameworks and processes designed to ensure that care is delivered safely, effectively, and inclusively. Joining...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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22:53
Taking a Trauma informed approach to the delivery of care and support
Trauma is a pervasive experience that can affect people of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and walks of life, including older people. In this episode we focus on the importance of being trauma aware and informed when delivering aged care ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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25:32
A rights-based approach in aged care – towards a better future
A new rights-based approach will soon be introduced to the aged care system. This approach will underpin the new Aged Care Act and will guide the development and delivery of aged care system into the future. So, what is a rig...
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Episode 21
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23:23
Diversity and inclusion: understanding language and terminology
Understanding the vocabulary of diversity & inclusion is an important first step towards ensuring the concepts or ideas that sit behind the language are applied when working with older people.In this episode we explore the language and term...
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Episode 20
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24:14
Achieving wellness through strengths-based practice
A strengths-based approach is a way of thinking, or the lens through which we approach the support and interactions that we have with clients - focusing on the positive attributes of a person or a group, rather than the negative. In pract...
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Episode 19
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24:32
Working with multicultural and multi-faith people and communities
When working with multicultural and multi-faith people and communities it’s important to consider their cultural needs, preferences, and beliefs in order to create a safe environment, and ensure the delivery of appropriate and inclusive service...
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Episode 18
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38:10
Making Elders feel safe, secure and supported
Making Elders feel safe, secure and supported needs to be a priority for all services, but how many are in a position to offer the individualised level of care required? We are privileged to have Elke Smirl CEO of Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathe...
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Episode 17
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51:38
Inclusive service delivery for older LGBTI people
We all aim for our services to be welcoming and we want to create environments that make people feel comfortable and safe. However, we can unintentionally create barriers for people, reinforcing their concerns that our service or our staf...
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Episode 16
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27:16
Creating inclusive assessment environments for older LGBTI people
Aged care assessments (at all levels) help service providers to understand who a person is, what’s important to them and what they need in order to live as independently as possible. Assessments should be grounded in inclusive and respect...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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25:27
Access and cultural safety for older LGBTI people
Creating equitable and culturally safe access to services for older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex people requires us to understand and respond to the access barriers experienced by the LGBTI community. At both an organisationa...
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Episode 14
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23:14
Supporting healthy ageing by engaging dietetic services
Good nutrition is essential for all of us, but even more important as we age. Despite this there is still limited knowledge within the general community and the aged care sector about the role of a dietician and the valuable support they can of...
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Episode 13
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31:49
Celebrate - not tolerate. Inclusive approaches to supporting diversity
If we are to truly create inclusive and welcoming environments, it is important that people are comfortable to be themselves and know they are appreciated and respected. It is for this reason that we say it is necessary to celebrate, not tolera...
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Episode 12
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25:34
Knowing your community – creating an inclusive and representative service
To be connected to their community, organisations need to learn about the diversity, experiences and aspirations of people living in their local area. They need to ensure there is representation of the local community within their clients, staf...
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Episode 11
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20:08
Applying a diversity lens - understanding and responding to consumers' diversity
Applying a diversity lens across service planning, design and delivery involves thinking about diversity in a way that focuses on who a person is and what’s important to them, ensuring each consumer’s experience is individualised and responsive...
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Episode 10
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25:08
Addressing ageism in the workplace
In the third of our series exploring ageism and elder abuse we speak with Sue McGrath Senior Policy Advisor to the Older Australians Campaign at The Benevolent Society to discuss ageism in the workplace. Sue explains the ways in which ageism ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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29:21
Ending elder abuse - A primary prevention approach
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is recognised each year on 15 June to highlight one of the worst manifestations of ageism and inequality in our society, elder abuse. In this podcast J...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:13
Returning to face-to-face social support groups
Following extended COVID lock downs in Victoria, the return to face-to-face service for social support programs funded through the CHSP is being welcomed by clients and service providers alike. In this podcast the ESDT speak with Su...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:54
Tackling Ageism - The EveryAGE Counts Campaign
Ageism is described as the most commonly accepted form of discrimination. Often it's subconscious, but the entrenched nature of ageist attitudes has significant and ongoing impacts on people's health, wellbeing, confidence and opportunities.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:24
STAT - Managing demand and supporting improved service access?
In late 2020 Katherine Harding, shared her knowledge and experience about the ‘Specific Timely Appointments for Triage’ (or STAT model) with Occupational Therapists across Victoria who support client independence in the CHSP program.In t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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35:42
A conversation on reablement - Part 2
In part 2 of our Reablement podcast series, Dale and Lisa (the eastern sector development team) speak with Dee Chand, Coordinator with the Maroondah City Council Regional Assessment Service. Dee shares her insights and experience of identifying...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:11
A conversation on reablement - Part 1
The first in a 2-part series, this podcast focuses on supporting a consistent and shared understanding about Reablement - a priority for the CHSP programme. In this podcast, Dale and Lisa (the eastern sector development team) explore the...
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Episode 3
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29:35
Inclusive and responsive care planning - supporting the independence of older people
Inclusive and responsive care planning underpins community aged care service delivery. It helps the service provider to learn who the client is, what's important to them and what they want to achieve to live as independently as possible. With t...
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Episode 2
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29:37
A community health response to COVID-19
Deb Benger is the Senior Manager in the allied health team at Access Health and Community. Deb shares what her and the team put in place in response to COVID-19 and how they maintained safe and continuous health services. Deb discusses the barr...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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39:09