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Geriatric Medicine Outreach Service
This service provides cross-district virtual geriatric consults to people living in rural and remote areas.
Added: 20 May 2021 | Last updated: 11 November 2022
Transitional Aged Care Program Redesign
This project sought to improve the effectiveness of the Transitional Aged Care Program by unifying and clarifying the governance and underlying philosophy across all teams, improving communication, building case management...
Added: 21 April 2022 | Last updated: 28 April 2022
The Holy Grail: Perioperative care for the frail
This project seeks to screen all patients on the elective surgical waitlist for frailty and optimise the health of those who are frail prior to their surgery. Five solutions were...
Added: 16 November 2021 | Last updated: 9 December 2021
Falls in older people with cataract: a longitudinal evaluation of impact and risk
This project identified factors associated with an increased falls risk in older people with cataract during their wait for cataract surgery.
Added: 23 June 2017 | Last updated: 8 November 2021
Southcare Outreach Service (SOS)
The Southcare Outreach Service is a new model of care that delivers a rapid response, multidisciplinary team to clients aged over 65 years in their home to prevent presentations to...
Added: 19 February 2016 | Last updated: 28 October 2021
Collaborative Care Outreach for Residential Aged Care Facilities
The ‘A Collaborative Care Outreach for Residential Aged Care Facilities in SLHD’ (ACCORD) project aims to deliver improvements in clinical leadership, education, processes and connections between the Access Care Team...
Added: 24 April 2018 | Last updated: 2 June 2021
Making the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale Work For Us
This project added an additional multidisciplinary team meeting to the Older Persons Mental Health Team schedule each week and adjusted the meeting agenda, to allow more time for mental health...
Added: 30 April 2018 | Last updated: 8 April 2021
Improving resident activity levels in the aged care facility on Norfolk Island
We worked closely with the community, staff, residents, and families of those living in the aged care facility on Norfolk Island to address their most pressing issue; the activity levels...
Added: 5 December 2018 | Last updated: 13 December 2018
Detecting Delirium in the Emergency Department
Belmont District Hospital implemented an education package for nursing staff, to improve the use of the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) screening tool in the emergency department (ED). The CAM tool...
Added: 14 February 2018 | Last updated: 1 March 2018
The Smallest Things Can Make the Biggest Difference
Broken Hill Health Service in Far West Local Health District implemented the person-centred sunflower tool, to improve communication and build a rapport between staff, patients and carers.
Added: 29 January 2018 | Last updated: 12 February 2018
Living Well in Residential Aged Care: Reducing Falls and Harm from Falls
Nyngan Health Service developed a falls workbook and DVD, which was used to educate aged care residents on falls and empower them to develop personalised strategies that would reduce their...
Added: 10 February 2017 | Last updated: 27 February 2017