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Webinar 8: Transforming aged care homes

This webinar was for people working in aged care and design. It explored case studies and learnings on refurbishing existing homes and briefing for new builds, and taught attendees how to plan and implement practical improvements.

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Presenters

  • Department of Health, Disability and Ageing host: Genevieve Donnelly | Assistant Secretary, Dementia, Diversity and Design Branch
  • Dementia Training Australia hosts: Nick Seemann | Environments Specialist and Managing Director, Constructive Dialogue Architects and Fallon Forbes | Associate Executive Director – National Training Delivery and Support
  • Speaker: Renee Mendes |& Residential aged care manager | Western NSW Local Health District
  • Speakers: Other Australian residential aged care providers and architects.

About the webinar

We collaborated with Dementia Training Australia to host an 8-part series designed to help aged care providers and designers understand and apply the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines.

The existing stock of aged care homes included older buildings that no longer met the needs and expectations of older people. This session explored how existing buildings could be improved through staged work, including small and relatively inexpensive projects that could achieve incremental improvement.

In this last webinar in the series, participants learned about:

  • practical strategies for transforming ‘institutional’ environments within existing building footprints
  • how to prioritise and stage projects to achieve incremental improvements over time
  • the importance of staff training.

For more information and resources, readers were directed to visit Dementia Training Australia’s Environments Hub.

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Webinar series: Home matters – Rethinking aged care design
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