Lightning Talk

Mrs Heidi Cathcart1, Professor Mary Butler2 1Otago Polytechnic, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Poverty is a significant global issue that is recognised internationally as a violation of human rights, and the United Nations is committed to the...
  • May 25, 2021
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Dr Jason Kenner1 1Melbourne Music Therapy, Melbourne, Australia This presentation describes a clinical study of group music therapy in an outpatient day program. The intervention described is an 8-week group program designed for participants with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality...
  • May 25, 2021
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Mrs Karen Benson1, Ms Ana Masara1, Mr Adrian Benson1, Dr Louise Greenstock2 1St. John Of God Hospital Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Australia, 2Western Alliance, Warrnambool, Australia Background Hydrotherapy is a well-known form of specialised physiotherapy treatment. St. John of God Hospital Warrnambool...
  • May 25, 2021
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Mrs Kylie Keast1, Mrs Anne Coccetti1 1Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Queensland Health, Meadowbrook, Australia Background During the COVID-19 pandemic demand for deep nasal and oropharyngeal swabbing within fever clinics for COVID-19 detection was unable to be managed solely...
  • May 25, 2021
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Dr Paula Harding1, Associate Professor Lisa Somerville1, Mr Doug McCaskie1 1Alfred Health, Prahran, Australia On March 16th, 2020 the Victorian Government declared a State of Emergency to manage COVID-19. Allied Health (AH) at Alfred Health implemented the following four model...
  • May 25, 2021
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Dr Karen Donald1, Mrs Anastaszia Ward-davies1, Ms Carolyn Cracknell1 1University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia Introduction Contemporary scholarship claims that it is more necessary than ever for allied health professionals to possess strong leadership skills furthermore leadership skills and knowledge...
  • May 25, 2021
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Mrs Bec Watt1 1Flinders University Of South Australia, Bedford Park, Australia The Australian healthcare system relies on 2.65 million informal caregivers to support people with a disability or frail older people. Almost half of the respondents of a recent national...
  • May 25, 2021
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Ms Charlene Tan-smith1 1Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand The South Island paediatric ketogenic dietary therapy service has been providing care since 2016 for children with refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy. Suffering hundreds of seizures per day medicalised ketogenic...
  • May 25, 2021
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Mrs Rae Parker1, Dr Liisa Laakso2, Raymond Kopeshke1 1Mater Health, Brisbane, Australia, 2Mater Research, Brisbane, Australia Background Pre-COVID-19, a metropolitan hospital allied health (AH) service commenced a project to improve telehealth (TH) services. We describe how we used the results...
  • May 25, 2021
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Dr Caitlin Brandenburg1, Professor Elizabeth Ward1,2, Ms Madeline Raatz1 1Centre for Functioning and Health Research, Metro South Health, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia, 2School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Introduction Evidence supports that research engagement...
  • May 25, 2021
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