This document provides the preliminary program for a seminar on preventing unnecessary hospital emergency department transfers for older people. The two-day seminar will be held on May 5-6, 2016 in Melbourne, Victoria and feature multiple sessions and speakers each day addressing challenges around emergency care for older patients and innovations to provide more appropriate care outside of hospitals. Topics will include primary and secondary prevention of emergency department attendance, integrated care models for residents of aged care facilities, reducing re-presentations to emergency departments, and keeping residents healthy at home.

1. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM*
REGISTRATION FORM
E: info@changechampions.com.au
Preventing Unnecessary Hospital Emergency Department
Transfers for Older People
5-6 May 2016,
The Park Event Space, Lakeside Dr, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria

2. The seminar addresses opportunities and challenges by showcasing strategic approaches and
innovations programs that assist to:
 alleviate demand and capacity pressures on hospital emergency departments (ED)
 enable older people living in the community/residential aged care (RACF’s) or at home to receive
timely, appropriate urgent care
 assist vulnerable older people to avoid potentially unnecessary transfers to hospital emergency
departments.
An application has been submitted for CPD points from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine
www Seminar Aims
http://www.changechampions.com.au

3. Thursday 5 May 2016
Session 1 “I don’t want to go to hospital. Why can’t someone see me here?”
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8.30-9.05 Registration
9.05-9.10 Welcome and Housekeeping
9.10-9.40 Opening Address
Simone Corin
Director, Health Programs
Department of Health and Human Services Victoria
9.40-10.10 Keynote Address
Primary and Secondary Prevention of ED attendance in independently living older people
A/Prof Glenn Arendts
Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine
University of WA
10.10-10.40 Keynote Address
CARE-PACT: integrated care for the acute healthcare needs of residents of aged care facilities
Ellen Burkett
Staff Specialist, Emergency Department
Princess Alexandra Hospital, QLD
10.40-11.00 Questions to Speakers
11.00-11.30 Morning Tea

4. Thursday 5 May 2016
Session 2
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
11.30-11.50 Re-presentations to ED by elderly patients – Can this be reduced?
Dr Anil Paramadhathil
Director, Geriatric Medicine
Canberra Hospital and Health Services (CHHS), ACT
11 .50-12.10 Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital Aged Care Service Model
Dr Jeremy Christley
Head of Department, Aged Care, Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital
Illawarra Shoalhaven Health Service District, NSW
Additional Authors: Narelle Evry, Co-Director ISLHD, Andrea Lee, Division Support Officer, ISLHD
12.10-12.30 Presentation title to be advised
Jacqueline Hewitt
Aged Care Emergency Clinical Nurse Consultant , Patient Flow Unit
Hunter New England Health Service, NSW
12.30-12.50 Clinical Deterioration in Residential Aged Care Facilities
Clare Poker
Associate Program Director; Health Independence Program and Hospital in the Home
Northern Health (NH), VIC funded by Northern Metropolitan Medicare Local (NMML)
Additional authors: Samir Agwan, Project Officer
12.50-13.05 Questions to Speakers
13.05-14.00 Lunch

5. Thursday 5 May 2016
Session 3
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
14.00-14.20 Evaluation of a Trial Goal Of Patient Care Form and Advance Care Planning in
Residential Aged Care Facilities
Dr Marianne Mok
Aged Care Registrar
Northern Health, VIC
14.20-14.40 Management of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Residential Care Facilities by a Mobile
Assessment and Treatment Service
Dr Sumitha Bhaskaran
Geriatrician
Alfred and Monash Health, VIC
Co-authors: Poojay S, Department of Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Alfred Health, VIC, Austin N,
Department of Business and Strategy Unit, Alfred Health, Hunter P, Department of Aged Care and
Rehabilitation, Alfred Health, VIC
14.40-15.00 Reducing ED Re-Presentations in the 60+ Population (TBC)
Jo-Anne Kennewell
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Bowral & District Hospital, NSW
15.00-15.15 Questions to Speakers
15.15-15.40 Afternoon Tea

6. Thursday 5 May 2016
Session 4 Making a Difference with Care in the Community
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
15.40-16.00 Keeping resident’s healthy at home
Angela Littleford
General Manager
Helping Hand, SA
16.00-16.30 Keynote Address
Presentation title to be advised
A/Prof Michael Montalto
Director, Hospital in the Home
Epworth Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
16.40-16.55 Questions to Speakers
16.55 Close
19.00 for 19.30 Networking Dinner
Canapes, three courses with beverages and entertainment with
The Voice’s Maya Weiss and her band Essential Groove
(Acoustic performances as well as after dinner show so bring your dancing shoes)
The Willows
462 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

7. Friday 6 May 2016
Session 5 Innovative Strategies for Delivery Care for Older People Closer to Where they Need
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8.20-8.45 Registration for Day 2 only attendees
8.04-8.50 Welcome and Housekeeping
8.50-9.20 Opening Address
Presentation title to be advised
Dr Chris Bollen
General Practitioner
Director, BMP Consulting, SA
9.20-9.30 Questions to Dr Bollen
9.30-10.00 Keynote Address
Care Coordination through Emergency Department, Residential Aged Care and Primary Health
Collaboration: The CEDRiC Trial
Prof Marianne Wallis
Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD
10.10-10.30 Presentation title to be advised
Nadia Yazdani
GRACE Clinical Nurse Consultant
Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital and Health Service, NSW
10.30-10.50 Taking Care of our Elderly Across One Million Square Kilometres
Rosy Tirimacco
Network Operations & Research Manager
Integrated Cardiovascular Clinical Network Country Health South Australia, iCCnet CHSA
Ali Krollig, Manager – General Health, Health Innovation Integration & Service Design,
Country SA Primary Health Network
Karen Dixon, Manager Strategic Clinical Change, Country Health SA
Verity Patterson, Executive Director Allied Health & Community, Country Health SA
10.50-11.00 Questions to Speakers
11.00-11.20 Morning Tea

8. Friday 6 May 2016
Session 6
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
11.20-11.50 Invited Presentation
Presentation title to be advised
A/Prof Mary O’Reilly
Executive Clinical Director, Ambulatory and Community Services
Eastern Health, VIC
11.50-12.20 Invited Presentation
Stephanie Murphy
Nurse Unit Manager, GEM at Home
Alfred Health, VIC
12.20-12.40 Presentation to be advised
12.40-12.50 Questions to Speakers
12.50-13.45 Lunch
Session 7 Technology Providing Opportunities for Urgent Care in the Most Appropriate Place
13.45-14.15
14.15-14.14.35 Late Abstract
14.35-14.55 Late Abstract
16.00 CLOSE

9. Friday 6 May 2016
Session 7 Technology Providing Opportunities for Urgent Care in the Most Appropriate Place
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
13.45-14.15 Invited Presentation
Presentation title to be advised
A/Prof Michael Montalto (tbc)
Director, Hospital in the Home
Epworth Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC
14.15-14.14.35 Late Abstract
14.35-14.55 Late Abstract
14.55-15.10 Questions to Speakers
16.00 CLOSE

10. PREVENTING UNNECESSARY EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT TRANSFERS FOR OLDER PEOPLE
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