To Aged Care Stakeholders

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) offers a warm invitation to representatives of your organisation to attend a free half-day Aged Veteran Best Practice seminar. These popular seminars are conducted nationally for health providers after development with industry input.

The seminars aim to improve provider knowledge and awareness of the older veteran community and their health entitlements and to promote links between DVA and health providers.

The seminar is suitable for community and residential aged care providers, discharge planners, allied health professionals, community nurses, practice and health managers and social workers.

The program will include information on rehabilitation appliances program, convalescent care, veterans’ special needs status, repatriation transport scheme to name a few. Please see attached flyer for more information.

Bookings are required no later than one week prior to the seminar by clicking on the relevant link provided in the email.

For further information and links to register, please see the attached flyer.

This message has been forwarded by the Department of Health and Ageing on behalf of the Victorian Department of Veteran’s Affairs.

You may download this document in PDF format:

PDF printable version of an invitation to the Victorian Seminars - Veteran Best Practice: working well with other veterans, war widows and DVA (PDF 472 KB)

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) offers a warm invitation to representatives of your organisation to attend a free half-day Aged Veteran Best Practice seminar. These popular seminars are conducted nationally for health providers after development with industry input. The seminars aim to improve provider knowledge & awareness of the older veteran community & their health entitlements, & to promote links between DVA & health providers. The veteran community makes up a large proportion of aged care service recipients, & has been assigned Special Needs Status under the Aged Care Act.

The response to the seminars has been very positive, with creative approaches to veteran issues resulting from the program. In many cases attendees have provided a valuable internal resource for their agency, with an increased knowledge of veteran issues & DVA services. An important outcome has also been increased awareness & usage of appropriate DVA contacts & resources. Participants will learn about DVA clients & funded services, have the opportunity to discuss how to optimise support for veterans, & meet DVA representatives.

The seminar is suitable for community & residential aged care providers, discharge planners, allied health professionals, community nurses, practice & health managers & social workers.
The program will include:

Introducing older veterans & their health issues
Working with the Veterans’ Affairs Network
Allied Health Services
Rehabilitation Appliances Program
Respite services
Convalescent Care
Veterans’ Special Needs status
Pharmaceutical entitlements of veterans
Commemoration & Grants
Working with Ex-Service Organisations
Veterans’ Home Care
Community Nursing
Repatriation Transport Scheme
HomeFront falls prevention program

Bookings are essential - no later than one week prior to the seminar.

You cannot register on the day.

Previous seminars have booked out, & we will establish a waiting list for later seminars if full.

Program & venue details will be sent one week prior to the event.

Registration is online only
For further information and registration go to Department of Veterans Affairs click on Service Providers then Aged Care Issues. Or click on or enter the relevant link on this page.

Most seminars will run 0900-1230

2011 Seminars	Dates
Melbourne	27 June
Albury	29 June
Geelong	11 August
Ballarat	16 Aug tbc
Bendigo	23 August
Swan Hill	24 August
Traralgon	8 September
Melbourne	17 November
Mental Health and Older Veterans	Melbourne 17 Nov 1.30-4.30

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