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  LASA Inaugural Congress

Sunday 28 - Wednesday 31 October 2012
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre

Congress sub-themes

All submitted abstracts should contribute to at least one of the following Congress sub-themes:

Workforce:

  • Quality and workforce interface
  • Defining the employer of choice
  • Will Nurse Practitioners change service models?
  • The future role of the general practitioner
  • A changing staff profile/multicultural staff - cultural appropriateness or culturally aligned programs?

Care models of the future:

  • Is there a solution to dementia?
  • Will age related acuity change care models?
  • Consumer directed care ? will it drive service model reform?
  • Person-centered approach ? changing processes, practices and expectations
  • Integrating primary care/community care/acute care
  • Integrating models of health services ? including Medicare Locals

    Systems reform and financing aged care:

  • Will the Productivity Commission Reform recommendations really deliver?
  • Can Australia afford a high quality aged care system?
  • Consumer co-contributions ? what does 'fair and equitable' mean?
  • The aged care gateway ? solution or problem?
  • Helping the older person make long term financial decisions that will maximise whole of life care options

    • Applying technology in an ageing society:

    • Will technology provide solutions to workforce pressures?
    • Can technology extend home based independence?
    • Integrating primary care and community care in technology connected service models
    • Will technology truly make the patient/ client the centre of the service model?
    • Cost and implementation of IT solutions
    • PCeHR deployment in an aged care setting

    Service models of the future:

    • Will residential long term care homes be required in twenty years?
    • Will seniors housing provide building and service offerings for whole of life?
    • International comparisons ? lessons learned from other countries
    • Life long housing design

    Changing patterns of clinical care:

    • Advance care directives
    • Palliative care in the home
    • What happens to the disabled as they age?
    • Is mental health the forgotten service component in an ageing society?
    • Will dementia drive new clinical practices?
    • Developing models of sub-acute service provision

    Marketing aged care:

    • Do community attitudes impact on services and can they be changed?
    • In a more market-oriented system will aged care providers need to market their services?
    • Is branding core to effective marketing?
    • Can marketing change workers' attraction to aged care as a career path option?
    • Risk management in handling the media in an aged care setting
    • Niche marketing for specialised aged care services