Resources

This freely accessible online program provided by the Maggie Beer Foundation aims to educate and train aged care staff and providers in creating and supplying nutritious and appetising meals to residents. They also provide other tools such as food satisfaction questionnaires to evaluate the meal service and membership of a professional community.

This free, self-paced online training module by the Maggie Beer Foundation explains how to maximise flavour and aroma in meals through different cooking techniques, how taste and smell can decrease with age and emphasises the importance of saliva in eating enjoyment, with ongoing access to recipes and a certificate on completion.

This free, self-paced online training module by the Maggie Beer Foundation explains how to promote independence and social interaction, the importance of enjoyable mealtimes for resident's health and how to use observational skills to make tailored positive dining experiences for each resident, with a certificate awarded on completion.

This free, self-paced online training module by the Maggie Beer Foundation explains the impact of swallowing difficulties, how to prepare flavourful and appetising texture modified foods, use of silicone molds and which basic cooking tools can create different texture modifications, with ongoing access to recipes and a certification on completion.

An online program for employees of aged care services who want extra skills to build their emotional resilience or recover after stressful or distressing events, and trauma. As you work through SOLAR you’ll build a toolkit of skills that can boost your mood, improve your wellbeing, decrease your stress, and help you recover after trauma.

The Equip Aged Care Learning Packages from the University of Tasmania (Wicking Dementia Centre) are freely available to anyone interested in the aged care sector to help enhance knowledge and keep up to date with current practices.  One of the modules is focused on promoting mental health and wellbeing, and can be accessed by enrolling in the course.

A KeepAble 'bite-sized' professional development module on assistance technology (AT), the role of care staff in supporting clients to use low-risk AT, and how this technology combined with a wellness and reablement approach provides greater opportunities for older people to remain living independently at home.

Part 2 of a KeepAble 'bite-sized' professional development module on support planning and delivering reablement in home care.  Includes a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s guide, assessment summary sheets, and a printable support plan template. 

A KeepAble 'bite-sized' professional development module on the importance of good reablement practice support planning while working with clients to achieve their goals. It links to a facilitator's guide and activity sheets to assist in delivering and understanding the course. 

A KeepAble 'bite-sized' set of professional development resources aimed at raising home care staff awareness of the impact reablement language can have when working with clients to maintain or regain abilities. It links to a facilitator's guide and activity sheets to assist in delivering and understanding the course.