UOW ADHERe in Wollongong, New South Wales | Educational research centre

UOW ADHERe

Locality: Wollongong, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4221 3471

Address: School of Nursing, University of Wollongong, 44 Northfields Avenue 2522 Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.adhere.org.au/

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24.01.2022 Victoria Traynor will be speaking at the #UOWBigIdeas Festival today about empowering nurses to detect delirium among older people. Live stream the event starting at 5pm via UOW Research's FB page! https://www.uow.edu.au//research-and-innovation-/bigideas/

23.01.2022 "A delirium management research project in the Illawarra is one of nine translational research projects to receive state government funding." https://www.uow.edu.au//funding-for-delirium-research-in-t

21.01.2022 A terrific day with colleagues from SWSLHD and WSU at Liverpool Hospital collaboratively developing a clinical aged care research strategy. Impressive facilitation skills with passionate colleagues talking aged care research!

19.01.2022 ONE SLEEP UNTIL WORLD AWARENESS DELIRIUM DAY Only 1 more sleep until World Delirium Awareness Day and the release of ADHERe’s 4AT Assessment of Delirium video series. Some actions to take on #WDAD2020: - Commit to using the term ‘delirium’ - Screen your patients for delirium... - Listen to patient and family stories about the experience of delirium - Engage your leadership in a discussion for delirium - Educate health professionals about delirium. And check our current ADHERe delirium care education resources: https://lnkd.in/e229T8S See more

19.01.2022 The ADHERe team have collaborated with colleagues in Thailand to provide a literature review: 'Delirium Among Hospitalized Older Adults in Thailand'. It's available to read in the June issue of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20200504-01

18.01.2022 Day 5 in Taiwan: ADHERe team member, Nadine Veerhuis, presented an overview of 8 years of dementia and driving research across 5 countries. Visit our dementia and driving ADHERe web to learn more: http://www.adhere.org.au/drivingdementia.html

18.01.2022 The ADHERe team have taken off to Taipei to work together with colleagues in Taiwan, including the Taiwanese Department of Health. Members of the team will also be presenting at the 11th Annual Asia Pacific IAGG throughout the week. Day one consisted of visiting the Taipei Medical University with a colleague from the University of Surrey.

18.01.2022 ADHERe 4AT ASSESSMENT OF DELIRIUM VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE ADHERe are proud to release the 4AT Assessment of Delirium video series Access all the videos here: ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist

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15.01.2022 The UOW ADHERe team has cooperated with the Taiwan Alzheimers Disease Association to run a workshop for people with dementia driving decision-making.

14.01.2022 The International Health-Wellbeing Virtual Symposium is happening tomorrow. Here is the itinerary and important information about the day.

14.01.2022 Day 2 in Taiwan: Workshop with TADA, TMU and Asia University to facilitate the use of the Dementia and Driving Decision Aid by practitioners working in Taiwan Integrated Dementia Care Centres.

14.01.2022 Interested in sharing your views and opinions about drivers in the senior years? We would love your help!

13.01.2022 WORLD-FIRST 4AT ASSESSMENT OF DELIRIUM VIDEO SERIES As part of World Delirium Awareness Day on March 11th, ADHERe are proud to announce the release of a world-first video series on the 4AT Assessment of Delirium. The 4AT is a screening instrument for cognitive impairment and delirium and we have created an accessible video series to help educate and inform nurses about how to accurately screen for delirium using the 4AT assessment. ... The video series will be released March 11th.

12.01.2022 TAIWAN RECAP The ADHERe team spent the past week visiting Taipei and presenting at the IAGG Asia Pacific Congress. Here are some more photos of Nadine Veerhuis and Alera Bowden’s impressive presentations. ... Alera was awarded an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for her oral presentation: In My Shoes Can wearing an age-suit increase person-centred practices for the hospitalised older adult? Congratulations to the entire team for their hard work and dedication.

10.01.2022 WHY DO YOU SEW? We invite you to participate by completing the following survey about yourself, and the reasons why you sew. The study aims to explore the impact of sewing on individuals' perceptions of their mental and social well being. It is part of a larger body of research exploring the impact of different hobbies and leisure activities on individuals' perceptions of their mental and social well being.... The survey can be found here: https://uow.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hzwnSnpInnfNeB

08.01.2022 ONE SLEEP UNTIL WORLD AWARENESS DELIRIUM DAY Only 1 more sleep until World Delirium Awareness Day and the release of ADHERe’s 4AT Assessment of Delirium video series. Some actions to take on #WDAD2020: - Commit to using the term ‘delirium’ - Screen your patients for delirium... - Listen to patient and family stories about the experience of delirium - Engage your leadership in a discussion for delirium - Educate health professionals about delirium. And check our current ADHERe delirium care education resources: https://lnkd.in/e229T8S See more

07.01.2022 Advance your professional practice in dementia care. Choose to study online or on campus in one of UOW’s professional Dementia Care courses in 2020.

07.01.2022 Day 4 in Taiwan: Our Joint Symposium- Taiwanese and Australian Innovation in Aged Network (TAIwAN) with Taipei Medical University and the Taiwanese Ministry of Health and Welfare.

04.01.2022 Team GOLD (Gerontological Nursing Competencies) won a team performance prize at the end of our CSIRO ON PRIME Course. Congratulations team!

04.01.2022 Congratulations to two of our great HDR candidates Benjamin and Sarah for winning the best Day 1 and Day 2 presentations at our SoN Research Conference. Benjamin won for his delirium research in ICU and Sarah won for her presentation on Day 1. Well done!

02.01.2022 Day 3 in Taiwan: The ADHERe team met with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to showcase senior nursing career pathways and the Gerontological Nursing Competencies as part of the NursingNow work.