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Care Forward

Locality: Rosny Park, Tasmania

Phone: +61 1300 364 876

Address: Level 1, 6 Bayfield St 7018 Rosny Park, TAS, Australia

Website: https://www.careforward.com.au/contact-us

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23.01.2022 Social Inclusion Week starts today! #isoinclusion Everyday Care Forward is seeking to build a more caring and inclusive community by reaching out to all those around us. https://bit.ly/2Hgo2X9

23.01.2022 If you weren't able to join this you can replay this webinar discussion of the key findings and recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission and what this means for the older person. A panel of experts explored the Royal Commission process and what happens next, recommendations to shape the aged care system to one where older people are front and centre, and how this affects your care.

21.01.2022 Over 85,000 Tasmanians are unpaid informal carers from an estimated national total of over 2.7 million carers. National Carers Week, from 11-17 October, is dedicated to celebrating their contribution to Tasmania’s community and economy.

19.01.2022 COTA (Council On The Ageing) Tasmania has developed a Living Well at Home brochure that provides tips for improving your personal wellbeing, including a wellness checklist, details of other helpful resources and contacts for further assistance. You can view it here: https://www.cotatas.org.au//0318-COTA-Living-Well-at-Home-

18.01.2022 Wellness is a journey... Most people want to age in their own home, feel safe and well, and stay in control of their own life.... Wellness is a very personal journey. While many of us want similar things, everyone is different. We all value different things, have different goals and challenges, and we move at our own pace. Our every-day choices and daily decisions affect our health and well-being. Being healthy and feeling well is so much more than getting good test results from the doctor. Even with health issues and limitations, you can feel well and happy. Wellness or well-being can begin with a CHOICE. Knowing what makes you feel good is important. Knowing what stops you from feeling good is vital. We can think of our wellness or well-being in three parts: Body: strengths, limitations Mind: mental, emotional, intellectual Social: family, friends, community, spiritual, outings.

17.01.2022 "Reablement" is about helping you to adapt to your condition by learning or re-learning the skills you need to manage in your everyday life. E.g... "I am able again to cook for myself because of this new device." E.g... "I have regained my ability to collect my mail because of the exercises."

15.01.2022 Happy Dietitians Day! Today we are excited to celebrate the work our #ExtraordinaryAPDs do to support the health of our clients and communities. #DietitiansDay2021

14.01.2022 "Older woman could be helped to live at home for longer if small ‘handyman’ tasks were included in the suite of services offered under home care package program, a researcher says." This is certainly something that Care Forward does! https://communitycarereview.com.au//study-finds-missing-l/

13.01.2022 This week is Occupational Therapy (OT) week, with the 2020 theme on *Resilience*: Supporting our communities to rebuild, recover, and reengage. As a team, we will be posting throughout the week, highlighting aspects of our role and how we work together with our clients to promote resilience, independence and quality of life. Warm regards,... The Care Forward OT Team Annette, Sarah, Jasmine & Daniel

12.01.2022 If you are in Ulverstone today, do pop in and say hello to Claire and Colleen, Care Forward's wonderful social workers who are ready to answer all your questions about staying well and independent at home as you age. Claire and Colleen are at the Health and Wellbeing Expo being held in the Gnomon Pavillion in the Ulverstone wharf precinct.

11.01.2022 Yesterday marked the beginning of NAIDOC Week 2020 so all of us at Care Forward wish to acknowledge the incredible history of the oldest living culture on the planet and celebrate the amazing achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now and throughout history. Find out more here : https://www.naidoc.org.au/ image: 2020 National NAIDOC logo

10.01.2022 The ‘It’s time to care about aged care’ petition now has over 20,000 signatures. @ACSAus says "That’s over 20,000 times that Members of Parliament have been automatically emailed with the Australian Aged Care Collaboration’s report, highlighting the issues. Those emails also include a call to make sure that MPs across Government and the opposition unite in support for reform of the aged care system with appropriate levels of funding, workforce and quality care for older Aus...tralians. It’s important that we hold Government to account in the forthcoming budget, to ensure we have the resources to deliver the sector improvements we all know are needed. Thank you to all of you who have signed the petition and shown support for the campaign by sharing it with your networks." https://www.facebook.com/Australian-Aged-Care-Collaboratio/ #careaboutagedcare

09.01.2022 It’s National OT week this week and as an OTeam, we want you reflect on how impairments can impact the things that you need and want to do. There’s no pressure and no test, just a celebration of what it means to be able to live the way you want to live. SCENARIO... You have recently experienced: sudden, permanent partial loss of vision. ... You have always had an independent nature and the thought of having someone else completing tasks for you is hard to come to terms with. There are some things that you are happy to change (perhaps goodbye scrubbing the bathroom, hello weekly cleaning assistance), but there are some things you don’t want to lose control over. WHAT MATTERS TO YOU? Showering? * See https://visionaware.org//home-modif/room-by-room/bathroom/ Getting around? * See https://www.visionaustralia.org//liv/getting-around-safely Reading labels at the supermarket? * See https://www.bemyeyes.com/ Reading novels? * See https://www.audible.com.au/ Paying at the shops? * See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_payment Cooking? * See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmW_37YT2ME

07.01.2022 "The ‘soft drivers’ of health are just as, if not more, important than factors like diet and exercise. ‘Our social lives and our mental habits affect our physiology,’ Ms Zaraska says. ‘Friendship, optimism, kindness, conscientiousness [these are] vital for our health and longevity.’"

07.01.2022 Today is World Social Work Day! Claire Williams, our Social Worker in North Western Tasmania and Board Member at Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), says: "To all Social Workers whether working, not working, retired, studying... thank you so much for all that you do, have done and will do in the future "... The theme for this year is: "Ubuntu: I am Because We are Strengthening Social Solidarity and Global Connectedness"... ´Ubuntu´ originates from the indigenous peoples of South Africa and was popularized across the world by Nelson Mandela. Ubuntu: ‘I am because we are’ is a word, concept and philosophy that resonates with the social work perspective of the interconnectedness of all peoples and their environments. It speaks to the need for global solidarity and also highlights indigenous knowledge and wisdom.

07.01.2022 Women's Health Tasmania is conducting a series of research projects talking with women across the state about their health, what is working for them and what is not. So far, they have spoken to women in rural areas and with women who identify as LGBTIQ+ and produced two reports. At present they are having conversations with women who are experiencing homelessness or are 55+ and at risk of homelessness. They keen to interview women 55+ who are or have recently been in insecure housing or might be at risk of homelessness. Contact them for further information.

05.01.2022 Help to Navigate Aged Care! The Migrant Resource Centre Tasmania Aged Care Navigator is a free service that helps multicultural older people and their families to understand what services and support is available through the Australian Government (My Aged Care). Assistance is offered statewide from our Glenorchy and Launceston offices.... They can help you to register with My Aged Care for support to live in your own home as long as possible. For more information, email [email protected] or call them on (03) 62210999.

05.01.2022 Looking forward to this!

03.01.2022 Happy OT Week everyone!! To celebrate here are a few fun facts you might not know about OT (Occupational Therapy)! Occupational Therapy techniques were used by Greek physicians for the treatment of mental illness as early as 100 B.C.... OT was officially founded in 1917 by three men and three womenthree years before women could even vote! #Equality Soldiers returning home from WWI were among the first OT patients! Occupations include any and all meaningful and necessary activities of daily life, for example dressing, eating, playing, learning, writing, socialising, shopping, driving, cooking, dancing etc. Name a workplace and OT is probably there: schools, hospitals, homes, skilled nursing facilities, prisons, substance abuse treatment facilities, doctor’s offices, rehab facilities, daycare centres, acute care, academia, and neonatal intensive care. Occupational Therapists use theoretical models and frames of reference supported by research and evidence to guide evaluation, assessment and application to the practice. The Person-Occupational-Environment Model (PEO Model) is just one of the models often used when working with clients. This model considers individualised factors within the Person, Environment and Occupation domains. Next time your OT makes a recommendation try quizzing them as to which theoretical model or frame of reference their analysis and decision has been made on! Click here to watch a video on the PEO Model! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmT8y-_FcY

01.01.2022 We were very excited to see the launch of the WHO First Global Report on Ageism last Friday, including a section that highlighted the EveryAGE Counts campaign as an example of how we can end ageism. The WHO report also highlighted how far we have to go. The report includes a survey of more than 83,000 people from 57 countries covering all six WHO regions of the world. It showed at least one in every two people held moderately or highly ageist attitudes.... That's on a global scale, but we know that we can start by making a difference in our own communities. And, as highlighted in the report, other countries are watching what we do in Australia to learn a better way forward. You can start to help by sharing the EveryAGE Counts social media posts on the report, which can be found here (https://www.facebook.com/EveryAGECounts) and here (https://twitter.com/EveryAGECounts). You might have also seen or heard EveryAGE Counts campaign director Dr Marlene Krasovitsky in the media today, here are two examples from the ABC. https://www.abc.net.au//who-finds-billions-suffe/100016688 https://www.abc.net.au//advocates-welcome-who-rep/13262904 Check out the WHO First Global Report on Ageism here (Page 142-144): https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/340208