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Do you have a client with HIV and wish to know how best to care for them?
You can increase your knowledge about what matters most to older people with HIV in aged care. Even if you don’t have a client or don’t know you have a client with HIV, arm yourself so you are ready. Over 50% of people with HIV are aged 50 and up and as more people with HIV age with relatively good health and their HIV controlled, this will only increase in the coming years.
Hear from a panel of HIV specialists such as a hospital clinician, nurse, community support worker, aged care advocate and an older person with HIV who accesses home based care. They discuss a hypothetical case, where ‘Jimmy’ an older person living with HIV is accessing aged care and they come up with strategies to the issues that can come up in the care he will be receiving. Learn about HIV transmission, HIV treatments, the lived experience of living with HIV and much more.
This is about older people with HIV and their right to receive optimal care.
This panel is a partnership between Living Positive Victoria, Thorne Harbour Health and Elder Rights Advocacy.
Living Positive Victoria – lpv.org.au
Thorne Harbour Health – thorneharbour.org
Elder Rights Advocacy – elderrights.org.au
This webinar provides an overview of Elder Rights Advocacy (ERA) services for aged care staff.
It also provides an overview of Advocacy and the rights of people who may be accessing Commonwealth funded aged care services (residential, home care packages, Commonwealth Home Support Programme) and how to address concerns.
Viewers will have a greater understanding of who ERA is, what services we provide and how we can be contacted including understanding the Charter of Aged Care Rights, with practical examples of it in action and what this means for older people accessing residential aged care, home care packages or the Commonwealth Home Support Programme.
Practical Strategies Webinar for Aged Care Sector Staff.
ERA’s Advocacy Manager Debra Nicholl was a panelist on this webinar, which explores how trauma-informed care can be introduced throughout the aged care sector to better support older people affected by trauma.
