Annual forums and conferences
Explore our forums and conferences designed to support and inform community aged care providers and other industry stakeholders in advancing their reablement practice.
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:
- Implementing wellness and reablement
- Transforming traditional ideas about ageing
- Practical, everyday ways to support older people in their independence
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
- Summary document
- A video is not available for this presentation
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:
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:
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.
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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