Aged Care Symposium
Comcater would like to invite you to an event dedicated to elevating Aged Care excellence through the lens of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards coming into effect on July 1st 2024. This symposium promises to provide valuable insights into strategies aimed at improving food quality, resident satisfaction and ensure compliance with the new Standard 6 for food and nutrition. While also equipping you with essential knowledge to navigate the ever-evolving regulatory landscape of Aged Care.
Agenda Highlights:
- Aged Care Quality and Safety Standards Discussion, including Current Standards Overview, New Aged Care Standards (July 2024), Regulator Focus and Compliance Implications and Industry Data/Trends.
- Increasing Quality and Satisfaction of Food: Explore practical insights to enhance the dining experience for your residents.
- Nutritional Impacts of Food in Aged Care: Gain a deeper understanding of the nutritional aspects crucial for the well-being of Aged Care residents.
- Learn how cooking with iProduction Manager from RATIONAL and hot holding in Merco holding solutions can facilitate more choice for residents and allow the implementation of a la carte style menu for breakfast and lunch sittings.
Guest Speakers:
- Andy Calwell, Anchor Excellence – Clinically trained with wide ranging capabilities, Andy has expertise across the Acute and Aged Care Sector, including regulatory compliance and remediation, consumer experience and engagement, customer feedback management and innovation, clinical governance, quality improvement systems and processes, policy development, analysis, implementation, and evaluation, together with complex governance reporting capability and proven project/program management skills. Andy models and maintains professional integrity, builds positive collaborative relationships, and works diligently and cooperatively with and within teams.
- Plena Healthcare Dietitian with experience working in Aged Care. Plena Dietitians follow evidence based guidelines and deliver resident focussed care. As a national team, Plena supports nutrition and hydration systems in Aged Care homes to support a positive dining and mealtime experience for residents.
