iLA Podcast Channel: Recent Episodes
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Discover the talkative tools and strategies helping AT Chat’s AT Mentor Glenn continue to dabble in woodwork safely and independently after losing his vision.
In this episode, Hilary O’Connell has a chat with Professor Peter Gore, Professor of practice in ageing and vitality at the Population Health Science Institute at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Peter's work involves aged-related functional decline and the malleability of ageing.
He has over 33 years of experience in medical product design. One of the tools Peter has developed with his company ADL Smartcare, is the LifeCurve™, which helps people understand how they are ageing and how they can take action toward improving their healthy ageing journey.
Together they discuss what healthy ageing looks like, the importance of sharing trustworthy information with an ageing population and aged care service providers, to change attitudes towards ageing and bring practical examples and tools to improve independence to have more 'good days'.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about reablement in the aged care sector. With our mission to build awareness about reablement, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in the aged care sector and getting their diverse views about care services and their experiences and insights. So far, Hilary has talked to researchers, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Nicola Seafield. Allied Health and STRC team lead at Mercycare, West Australia.
Hear how a trip to Rottnest Island with her family led to Polly discovering the joy and freedom mobility products can give you when you live with the challenges of Parkinson's.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views. So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Gill Lewin, Member of the Australian Governments Council of Elders and Adjunct Professor at the Enable Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University, Perth, WA.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views. So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Angie Slater, Director of Home Care and Retirement Living, Juniper, West Australia.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been out and about chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views. So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Laura Coleman. Practice Advisor Aged Care and Dementia at Avivo, West Australia.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views. So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Dr Elissa Burton, Associate Professor Enable Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University, Perth, WA.
Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views. So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Alison Vella, Quality and Practice Lead at Aspire4Life, Queensland.
An example of the challenges faced by assistive technology (AT) users when accessing AT while living in regional or remote areas and some solutions, comes from Nerine Williams.
At its core self-advocacy is about individuals making choices about themselves, for themselves, and having those choices listened to. In this article, we share why self-advocacy is important to assistive technology (AT) users, along with the potential barriers they face self-advocating for equipment and products to help them achieve their goals.
In our latest article we collaborated with the Australian Inclusion Network to bring you, Joyful but functional, this is my AT - Nerine's story. Nerine was diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and more recently with Autism and ADHD, shares her personal motivation behind choosing certain AT items to support her maintain as much function and mobility as possible. Follow the link below to read about the AT that is woven into every activity in every part of her life.
Together with the Ingham Institute’s Assistive Technology Hub, we share how Jayden, after a catastrophic motorcycle accident; maintains his independence at home and connections to his community using AT. This is Jayden's story. This is Live, Play, Work.
In this Live, Play, Work story in collaboration with Ingham Institute's Assistive Technology Hub, Jayden shares how the use of AT in his home has changed everything about his day-to-day life after a catastrophic motorcycle accident that affected the entire left side of his body and caused a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Together with the Arts Hub run by Rise, we joined Greg to see what AT he used to tell his artistic story. This is Greg's story. This is Live, Play, Work.
Kate tells her AT story through the journey with her son, Benj. AAC has enabled her son to use her voice. This is their story. This is Live, Play, Work.
Layne is a bit of an AT enthusiast, and *they said after discovering the right AT to revive their love for literature and passion for writing, they said having the technology they used now would have changed everything about their studies in school. This is Layne's AT and this is their story.
*Pronouns have been assigned to reflect the gender of the talent
Together with Vision Australia, we go on an AT assessment journey with client, Emma Vardy. This is Emma's AT and this is her story.
Book enthusiast Emma said she loves to read and signing up to Audio Books was the best thing she has ever done! This is Emma's AT and this is her story.
June was a teacher for 45 years and in that time, most of her social activity revolved around her work.
After retirement, she found her social connections were diminished and as time progressed she found herself with less opportunity to maintain any kind of social presence.
This is Junes story of how she managed to overcome anxiety and other obstacles to regain a social presence in her life.