The Psychogeriatric Nurses’Association Australia (Inc)

Friday, 13 September 2019Aspire Event Centre, Level 2 The Central Building (230) Innovation Campus, Squires Way, North Wollongong

Collaboration working in Older People’s Mental Health, Aged and Dementia Care

RAISE YOUR VOICE

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

08:30 Registration and CoffeeSession Chair: Marianne Cummins (Vice President PGNA)09:00 - 09:10 Marianne Cummins - Housekeeping09:10 - 09:20 Jodie Edwards - Illawarra Aboriginal Council, Welcome to Country09:20 - 09:50 Opening Address: Dr Sue Packer AM, 2019 Senior Australian of the Year LifeCycles–Whatthefirstandlaststagesoflifeshare-andwhatcanwe learn from the two experiences09:50-10:50 Keynote Speaker: Professor Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, MD, FRACP An integrated perspective on frailty and dementia: What to do when drugs have failed us?10:50 - 11:10 Morning TeaSession Chair: Dr Sue Packer – Session Sponsor Dementia Support Australia11:10 - 11:40 Prof Steve Macfarlane, Dementia Support Australia Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service (DBMAS) & Severe Behaviour Response Team (SBRT) DementiaSupportAustralia–TooManyAcronyms?Wheredotheyallfit?11:40 - 12:10 Danielle Kennedy, Nurse Practitioner – Aged Care Collaboration: Empowering clinical practice in dementia care12:10 - 12:40 Catherine Brown, Nurse Practitioner – Cognition and Psychogeriatrics Courage, Cracks and Creative Collaboration12:40 - 13:40 Lunch & AGMSession Chair: Prof John Snowdon (PGNA Patron)13:40 - 14:10 Anne Sammut, Residential Services Education Team Hammond Care TribulationorTriumph?ReflectionsontheValueofCollaborativePractice14:10 - 14:40 Dr Elizabeth Preston, Clinical Psychologist Eddie Zeballos, Clinical Nurse Consultant OPMHS ILHD A Suicide Prevention Initiative: A Collaborative Project between Older People’s Mental Health Acute Inpatient and Community Services14:40 - 15:00 Professor Yun-Hee Jeon, University of Sydney StepUp for Dementia Research - Connecting the public with dementia researchers and enabling them to be part of the solution15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon TeaSession Chair: Rod Pirotta (PGNA Outgoing President)15:30 - 16:00 Dr Sid Williams, Psychogeriatrician and Author - “Your Brain in Sickness and in Health” Mental Illness: mind, body, brain, family and culture16:00 - 16:30 Diane Herr, RN Consultant Consumer/Advocate, Aged & Community Services Australia Balancing ‘what to do” as opposed to “how to do it”16:30 - 16:45 Rod Pirotta, Outgoing President PGNA Summation and close of the conference

The Psychogeriatric Nurses’Association Australia (Inc)CONFERENCE PROGRAM