GANA & AAG Co-present an online event
Celebrating aged care worker week
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The magic of rural and remote nurses
We plan to record this event and make that recording
available to all registrants subsequently
If you can't make it on the day we encourage you to register
anyway so that you receive that link
Join our August webinar celebrating aged care worker week.
We have convened an amazing group of clinicians who will share their experiences of delivering health and aged care services to our older populations in rural and remote locations.
We’ll provide the usual opportunity for Q&A and time for planning our future events. To wrap up we will seek nominations from GANA members for the topics of our end of year events.
- Be inspired by clinicians working in rural and remote regions.
- Connect with GANA members
- Nominate a topic for GANAs end of year event
Hear from our speakers:
Dr Noel Collins
Director of Older Adult Mental Health
Western Australia Country Health Service
Dr Noel Collins is an older adult psychiatrist who has extensive experience providing specialist care to older people who live in residential aged care facilities. Dr Collins has a lived understanding of the current challenges, and potential solutions, in providing safer systems of mental health care for older Australians with a particular focus on rural and remote settings. Dr Collins’s academic work has focused on later life depression and dementia care.
Aloha Sison
Nurse Practitioner
Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand
Aloha Sison, originally from the Philippines, has over 10 years of nursing experience. Since arriving in New Zealand in 2014, she’s worked in various clinical settings including Orthopedics, age-related residential care and found a passion for gerontology. She’s held quality improvement and clinical leadership roles. Currently a Nurse Practitioner for Te Whatu Ora, Aloha collaborates with the ARRC sector to address patient-specific challenges and sector issues. She continues to strengthen partnerships and integrate holistic approaches to achieve compassionate, coordinated care.
Chaired by:
Prof Christine Stirling
Head of School, School of Nursing
University of Tasmania
Professor Christine Stirling is Head of School of the School of Nursing University of Tasmania. Christine has a strong commitment to the Aged Care Theme for the school and helped establish the Transforming Research in Ageing group. She has contributed significantly to improving health services for older Australians by increasing knowledge and generating impact in the social science nursing fields of workforce, care of older people and citizen participation, care experience.
Christine was AAG National President from 2017 - 2020