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Lauren O’Neill, Coordinator Cobaw Community Health Service Taking the Mountain to Mohamed – PAGs in SRSs Presenting a model of planned activity delivery that targets and has positive outcomes for a diverse and a sometimes-difficult group of people, while combining community participants with residents of an SRA using the SRA as the venue. Program has been successfully run for 18 months. Initial Aims and Objectives of program Encourage participation of residents of an SRA in a country town who were reluctant and often distressed about attending activities outside their own home-usually due to past experience and/or disability. Introduce potential residents from the community to the SRA to facilitate easier transition if it occurred in the future. Increase the number of people from the community visiting the SRA to extend social connections. Provide an activity program that had positive outcomes for and was meaningful to an extremely diverse group. Areas to be covered History of this particular SRA and its place in the community. Graphic representations of demographics of current resident population – 40 to 80 years, Psychiatric disability, Intellectual disability, Acquired Brain Injury, Physical disability, Dementia, Alcoholic Brain Syndrome, NESB. Behaviours of participants – would normally prevent them from attending outside activities due to their insecurities and community attitudes. The Actual Activities – formally run appropriate games and activities, socialisation. Staff qualities and training. Where the aims and objectives achieved? What is the cost to the service and the participants? Positive outcomes for participants o Increase in level of trust of people outside the SRA – community members and services o Introduces community into SRA o Breaks down social barriers and historical perceptions. o Some residents of SRA now confident enough to attend activities and functions in the general community. Contact details Lauren O'Neill, Cobaw Community Health Service Activity Centre, 8 Mollison Place, Kyneton 3444. –Ph: (03) 5422 2833 – Fax: (03) 5422 1049 – E-mail: mollisonplace@impulse.net.au 40
Good Practice & Innovative Service Models Concurrent Sessions Session 6 — Complexity Judy Anderson, Coordinator, Peter James Centre, Killara Campus Day-Care for Younger Adults with a Dementia In 1997 carers of younger people with a dementia (i.e. aged 45 to 65) lobbied the Peter James Centre, and HACC, to provide a day respite program aimed at this particular grouping. Until then the only day-care available for this group was with conventional aged care facilities. Clients would often refuse to attend these facilities because of the wide disparity in the ages and physical abilities of other attendees. These programs were usually limited to passive in-house programs and provided little or no stimulation for the younger age group. In January 1998 the ‘Friday Group’ was formed under the auspice of the Peter James Centre, and funded by HACC. The Group was initially set up by Garry Jackel, Manager of the Psychiatric Day Hospital, and I was asked, as Coordinator at ‘Killara’ Adult Day Care Centre, to join him to implement the program. The initial weekly program envisaged an outing/visit once a fortnight, with an in-house activity for the intervening week. The ‘outings’ proved to be quite manageable but the ‘in-house’ program was a complete failure, the Clients becoming easily restless and bored, leading to some distress for all concerned. By listening to feedback from Carers, and through trial and error, this has led to a much-revised format involving a weekly outing in a twelve-seat bus to a wide range of quite conventional tourist venues and activities in and around Melbourne. This has proved highly successful, with many of our Clients now exclusively attending with this Group. The presentation will focus on this successful format, and its proven need for specific HACC programs of this type. Contact details: Mrs Judy Anderson, Peter James Centre, ‘Killara’ Campus, 40 Warrandyte Road, Ringwood VIC 3134. – Ph: (03) 9870 8947 – Fax: c/o (03) 9844 1910 41
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