| Day One - March 5, 2015 | ||
 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Conference Registration | |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Welcome to Country | |
| 9:10 am - 9:40 am | Conference Welcome & Opening Address Illana Halliday, Chief Executive Officer , Aged & Community Services NSW & ACT | |
| 9:40 am - 10:10 am | The Health Reforms Professor Kathy Eager, Director, AHSRI , University of Wollongong | |
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Measuring Outcomes in Community Care: The impact on policy, practice and research of developments in England Prof Anne Netten, PSSRU, University of Kent at Canterbury | |
| 10:40 am - 10:45 am | Major Sponsors Address Elaine Lawler, HESTA | |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | MORNING TEA | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 1A - Aged/Acute Interface | CONCURRENT SESSION 1B - Outcomes Based Quality Improvement |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Adapting ACE to a rural community Jacqueline Hewitt, Aged Care Emergency Clinical Nurse Consultant | Patient Flow Unit , Hunter New England health | The Impact and Significance of Measuring Outcomes: Australian / International Experience Representative from, AHSRI |
| 11:35 am - 11:55 am | Counting the cost of changing practice - the economic evaluation of the implementation of the Aged Care emergency Program in the Hunter Medicare Local Region Catherine Turner, After Hours Program Manager, Hunter Medicare Local | Using quality reports to choose between residential aged care providers Lisa Trigg, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 11:55 am - 12:15 pm | A six week multi-disciplinary Hospital Avoidance Program for people over 65 Dr Penny Webster, Staff Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Community Acute Post Acute Care, Hunter New England Local Health District | Developing Best Practice for Physical Activity and Exercise Programs for People Living with Dementia Kylie Miskovski, Senior Research and Policy Officer, Alzheimer's Australia NSW |
| 12:15 pm - 12:35 pm | A collaborative approach to planning and delivering care for confused older people in Hospital Representative from, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation | What does good quality residential dementia care really look like? A systematic review of the evidence Sarah MacPherson, Clinical Research Office, Aged Care Evaluation Unit, Southern LHD |
| 12:35 pm - 12:50 pm | Q & A | Q & A |
| 12:50 pm - 1:50 pm | LUNCH | |
| 1:50 pm - 3:00 pm | PANEL SESSION - Issues of sexual expression and an older person with dementia What are the legal issues to consider? How might a family react? What should a provider be doing? | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | AFTERNOON TEA | |
| CONCURRENT SESSION 2A - Clinical Studies | CONCURRENT SESSION 2B - Culture & Change |
| 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm | Inpatient Care and Beyond Sanjay Gangadharan, Advanced Trainee in Geriatrics, Greater Newcastle Cluster, Hunter New England Local Health District | Thriving through change Janice Stokes, Business Manager/Sydney West, BaptistCare NSW & ACT |
| 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm | Outcomes of rehabilitation for reconditioning: falls, frailty, care service requirements - what does the national data tell us? Jacquelin Capell, Research Fellow, Australiasian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong | Workplace culture: the possibilities and the power Deborah McKern, Director of Nursing, Estia Health Dalmeny |
| 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm | The impact of fruit flavonoids on cognition in older adults with Alzheimer's type dementia Katherine Caldwell, University of Wollongong | Making change stick. Effective engagement strategies in a large change program Anne Chamberlain, Program Development Manager, Community Ageing & Disability Services, Benevolent Society |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Q & A | Q & A |
| 4:45 pm - 4:45 pm | Day One Close | |
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