By now you know weโ€™re doing some end of year specials. For todayโ€™s episode we welcome back Ilsa Hampton, the CEO of Meaningful Ageing Australia to the show! Ilsa joined us in the early days of Season 1 to talk about spiritual and meaningful care, so you can go back and check out that episode later!

For today, weโ€™re talking about finding personal meanings in the end of year and ways to accommodate everyone's interests, and thereโ€™s even a little bit about Ash's New Year plans in here which we know everyone is dying to hear!

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Today, weโ€™re doing another Christmas special, with the help of music therapist Hayley Antipas. Weโ€™re chatting about music and the role it plays and could play in aged care settings.

We must apologise in advance to any Michael Buble fans out there, we had a little dig at your favourite singer, rest assured he wonโ€™t be stopped and youโ€™ll be hearing more of him before Christmas.

Weโ€™ve only got a few more of these little episodes for the year and weโ€™re gearing up for some exciting things for next year - which Iโ€™ll tell you more about next time.

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Hello there everybody, this is another xmas short from the ACE Podcast. Weโ€™ve got a few bite sized episodes in December, looking at all the elements that go into making a great Christmas and end of year. What would Christmas be without laughter and merriment, thatโ€™s why weโ€™ve got comedian Georgie Carroll joining us today. 

Georgieโ€™s probably best known as the nurse comedian, who in her own words started mining her professional life as a nurse for comedy. Youโ€™ve probably seen her around, on tv, radio, comedy specials and perhaps promoting her book "Off the Charts" which is chock full of war stories from her nursing days.

We got together and talked about nursing, aged care and of course Christmas.

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Weโ€™re doing something a little bit different throughout the month of December. To get ourselves in the holiday spirit or Christmas mood weโ€™re presenting a few short, conversations over the next few weeks about this special time of year.

Each episode will focus on a different element, and todayโ€™s episode is all about food. Before we get to the food coma on Christmas Day thereโ€™s work to be done behind the scenes preparing meals, especially for people receiving care.

Our guest is Sam Bridgewater from Pure Food Co, who help care providers deliver nutritious and appropriate meals for people with diverse care needs. Itโ€™s a quick, fun conversation that will hopefully whet your appetite, yes pun intended, for all the delicious food at Christmas.

The good news is that there will be another one of these bite-sized conversations, again, coming out each Friday, so youโ€™ll get a double serve of us for the next few weeks.

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Today, we have an interview that weโ€™ve been looking forward to for a while, with Jannette Spiering from Be Advice and also De Hogeweyk in the Netherlands. Even if you donโ€™t recognise the names you may know the story, itโ€™s been described as โ€œthe dementia villageโ€ a name Jannette and the team strongly dislike, but itโ€™s received a lot of attention for itโ€™s mission of creating a normal life for people living with dementia.

They do all sorts of fantastic stuff in De Hogeweyk to ensure that residents retain their freedom and have a fulfilling life with support from the care teams. With restaurants, a supermarket, and the freedom for residents to walk around the neighbourhood, Jannette and the team pioneered this approach in the 90s.

Weโ€™re fast approaching the end of 2021 still feels weird to say, and weโ€™ll be doing something a little special throughout December. In the three weeks before Christmas weโ€™ll be featuring some shorter, bite sized episodes each Tuesday and Friday talking about one aspect of Christmas and the holidays.

Itโ€™ll be a little bit of fun to get us all in the spirit for the end of the year.

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You may have heard our episode with Professor Joseph Ibrahim a fortnight ago, called The Legacy of the Royal Commission, in which Joe chatted about the impact of the Royal Commissionโ€™s final report and the Governmentโ€™s policy response.  Well this episode continues that conversation from a different viewpoint.

On the show today we're talking to Kerryn Dillon and Rich Ainley from PwC, who as well as advising many aged care providers on matters of structure and management, guided the Government in the creation of the so-called "Five Pillars Plan".

This episode is really about deconstructing the effects that this Government plan will have on the industry, from management, to care workers and to care recipients and families. It turns out, itโ€™ll take some time for changes to set in, but in the meantime Kerryn and Rich have some ideas that can help the industry get ready for imminent change.

If youโ€™ve been listening to these episodes and wondering, hmm how can I help them keep releasing episodes? The answer is pretty easy! Just jump onto your podcast listening app and leave us a review with all your lovely thoughts about the show - they go a long way to helping us find new listeners and opportunities.

And lastly, weโ€™re fast approaching the end of the year and wanted to sow a little seed that weโ€™re doing something fun and different for our episodes in December - weโ€™ll tell you about more, next time.

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Tomorrow is Global Virtual Reality Day, and brings the energy and interests of the greater VR community together, and focuses that energy on the benefit of everyone in one special day! For us at SilVR Adventures, it's an opportunity to share an interview with one of our SilVR Champions: Abbie Dawson from Goodwin Aged Care in Australia.

Goodwin is one of Australiaโ€™s most innovative aged care providers, and throughout the pandemic theyโ€™ve found a new and exciting way to engage with their residents. Goodwinโ€™s Abbie Dawson explains all in this special bonus episode of the podcast.

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Today's conversation is all about the COVID response in Australian aged care. Now this is a bit of a first for us - weโ€™ve been interviewing prominent and interesting folk from the aged care industry for the last year and weโ€™ve yet to have a conversation focused on COVID. But helping us take an in-depth look at the response so far and the future of how the aged care sector can adapt to a world in which we live with COVID, is CEO of Whiddon Aged Care, Chris Mamarelis.

One topic we focus on, which you may relate to or find interesting, is the confusing and problematic communication throughout the COVID response from various levels of Government. Chris and the Whiddon team have recently released a paper identifying some recurring problems and proposing possible solutions to mitigate this in future.

Call to action! As we plan for our third season of the podcast in 2022, we are casting the net out for interesting topics and guests to feature. If thereโ€™s a topic or guest youโ€™d like to recommend, then send us an email at [email protected]

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A few weeks ago we welcomed back friends of the show, Daniella Greenwood and Maurie Voisey-Barlin for an informal chat about some of issues raised in Tuesday's episode and delighted to share they're back by popular demand to discuss The Legacy of the Royal Commission. Happy Friday!

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It's been 250 days since the aged care Royal Commission report was released but what is it's legacy? Today, we're delighted to welcome Professor Joseph Ibrahim on to the Aged Care Enrichment Podcast to share his thoughts.

Joe is a practicing senior specialist in geriatric medicine, Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, and creating informative content on dignity of risk and other challenges of dementia care via his website www.profjoe.com.au

Joe holds nothing back in this interview and youโ€™ll hear heโ€™s very vocal about the need for aged care reform, particularly in relation to funding, standards of care, human rights, sexual abuse and the failure of successive governments to address systemic problems in the industry.

There is a lot to unpack here, and much more than we can do justice in this very short teaser - youโ€™ll have to hear Joe explain it himself.

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