Annual forums and conferences

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2025 ‘Reablement in Reality’ Conference

Thank you for joining our 2025 Reablement in Reality conference! It was a thrill to host so many experienced aged care professionals. They provided valuable insights on:

You can access the program overview here. And below are the summary documents and video recordings for each session.

Whether you’re revisiting these resources or accessing them for the first time, they cover key points, related materials, and lots of other links to continue your learning.

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LifeCurveTM in Real Life: From Principles to Practice

Explore how the LifeCurve™ framework transforms aged care reablement as industry experts share practical strategies and insights for enhancing client independence in daily practice. Facilitated by experienced occupational therapist Kirsten Campbell:

First slide of a PowerPoint presentation on the LifeCurve, a visual tool for mapping age-related decline

Be the Force for Fighting Frailty

Unpack the realities of frailty with Hilary O’Connell as she shares practical strategies, early warning signs, and evidence-based ways to prevent or reverse frailty for both clients and the workforce:

First slide of a PowerPoint presentation on the concept of frailty

Ageism: Hiding in Plain Sight

Dr Anne Ring exposes how ageism operates in the health system, its impact on older people, and empowers audiences to identify and challenge ageist attitudes for better reablement and wellbeing outcomes:

The first slide of a PowerPoint presentation on ageism in the healthcare system

5 Simple Strategies for Reablement

Kirsten Campbell and Alison Vella, a reablement advocate, present 5 simple, practical reablement strategies that empower all team members to create effective, person-centred interventions, enhancing client independence and improving reablement outcomes:

The first slide of a PowerPoint presentation on reablement strategies

First Nations Perspectives on Assistive Technology (AT)

Vanessa Langenberg, a Community Development Researcher, shares First Nations elders’ perspectives on assistive technology, highlighting cultural insights, barriers, and practical resources to support more inclusive, effective reablement for diverse older populations:

First slide of a PowerPoint presentation about First Nations perspectives on assistive technology

Care Planning: Supporting You Now and Exploring the Future

Kirsten Campbell explores person-centred care planning, sharing practical insights and new resources to support Quality Standard 2. Occupational therapists Tyran Lewis and Johanna Walley provide a sneak peek about the potential of AI to shape the future of digital care planning:

The first slide of a PowerPoint presentation on care planning in aged care

Dignity of Risk

Lisa Dean and Sally Dagg, Wellness and Reablement Consultants, lead a session on dignity of risk, exploring its vital role in aged care. They discuss balancing older people’s right to make choices involving risk with providers’ duty of care, highlighting recent national work advancing this principle:

First slide of a PowerPoint presentation on dignity of risk in aged care

Reablement in motion: Building the relationship between assessment services and service providers

Alison Vella hosts a panel with assessment and service provider experts discussing how reforms impact reablement delivery. They explore building strong communication and collaboration, focusing on effective goal setting to enhance client outcomes and teamwork:

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2024 ‘Rethink Reablement’ forum

We had an amazing lineup of distinguished speakers and presenters who are all at the forefront of innovation and expertise in wellness and reablement.

You can review the recording of our 2024 forum here, whether you missed it on the day, or just want to experience any of the presentations again.

Provider and client sharing a cup of tea

Recording timecodes:

00:00:00 – Intro from Paul Sadler

00:02:45 – Hilary O’Connell – The why of Reablement

00:24:56 – Nick Morgan – Reablement and Support at Home

00:40:29 – Joanna Maxwell – What’s age got to do with it?

01:27:23 – Angie Slater – Reablement from a provider perspective

01:58:54 – Alison Vella – Reablement from an assessor perspective

02:29:19 – Pat Sparrow – Reablement from the consumer perspective

02:41:51 – Kirsten Campbell – Everything you do for me, you take from me

03:34:31 – Paul Sadler – Wrap up of the forum

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Q&A raised by the forum

Here are just a few questions that attendees posted on the day or that were raised in presentations and the answers to those questions. If you have any questions that you need the answer to, please email us at: keepable@ilaustralia.org.au
  • You can find information about the aged care reforms and have your say in upcoming engagement opportunities via the Department of Health and Aged Care’s engagement hub: Ageing and Aged Care Engagement Hub. You can also find information on KeepAble’s Reform page here: Reform Update

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Supporting resources and information

Some of the issues and resources mentioned in the forum by our wonderful presenters can be found expanded on here.
Hilary O'Connell presenting at the KeepAble forum
Reablement conversations
These animations were inspired by Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, and the conversations she has had with a diverse range of professionals from the aged care sector. To listen to this fascinating series visit our ‘podcasts’ page.
Kirsten Campbell - part of the KeepAble team
Bitesize presentations
The presentation by Kirsten Campbell, ‘Everything you do for me, you take from me‘ was taken from the series of Bitesize modules as created by KeepAble, and free to access and download here.
Angie Slater forum presenter
Juniper’s Angie Slater talks all things reablement!
Director of Home Care and Retirement Living at Juniper, Angie Slater, featured as a presenter in the Rethink Reablement forum. Read more about Angie’s view on Reablement here.
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