Resources

This Australian Digital Health Agency webpage defines interoperability and explains why it is needed, along with the benefits for consumers, healthcare providers and provider organisations. It also provides clear information on secure messaging and electronic prescribing.

A set of useful tools for the aged care sector from the Australian Digital Health Agency. Includes guides to selecting secure IT products and services, factors to consider when choosing a cloud service provider, and a checklist of questions around security and privacy to put to IT vendors.

GENIE is an online repository of national and international evidence-based dementia resources in 68-plus languages. Developed by the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) and codesigned with providers and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) carers and service providers.

No matter what stressors we face at work and home, we need to nurture our own emotional, physical and social health. What techniques can we build into our day so that we don’t just cope, but thrive? The Nurse and Midwife Support website provides helpful advise on Self-care for nurses and midwives.

Many senior Australians may be experiencing grief, loss or bereavement because of COVID-19 impacts. The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement   provides education and training to professionals and consumers on grief and loss and have a number of helpful webinars available on their website.

The self-care room provides aged care workers with resources to discover and explore, to use now or when needed, to download and share. The self-care room was developed by ELDAC.

The Self-Care Matters (Aged Care) resource was developed by Palliative Care Australia to assist all aged care workers in residential facilities or community settings with practising self-care to support the quality and sustainability of the care they provide to older Australians.

A blog written by the Royal College of Healthcare presenting steps to addressing burnout in the aged care sector.

Anna Pannuzzo, Director WorkPlacePLUS provides a discussion of the important factors for protecting against work-related stress and burnout, learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Working with people who have experienced trauma can impact on your health and wellbeing, as well as expose you to trauma at work. Phoenix Australia have resources to help support your own wellbeing while caring for others.