Conference - Melbourne, Australia
This national conference looks specifically at facilitating education and best practice information exchange for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2015:
- Consumer opening address - Women, traumatic brain injury & family violence
- Keynote address - Senator the Hon Mitch Fifield, Assistant Minister for Social Services
- Working with families of people with TBI
- Communication training to improve conversations with a person with TBI
- Establishing a 'Carer Support Group' & empowering people
- Supporting families from diagnosis/ treatment in hospital to post hospital discharge & into community care
- Specialised psychosocial model of care - Brain injury & the elderly
- Innovative approaches to brain injury rehabilitation
- Challenging behaviours & effectiveness of new treatments
- Overview of future brain injury research activity in Victoria
- Mythmaking: Brain injury in popular movies
- Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People with ABI & complex disabilities
- NDIS - A lawyers perspective
- ABI & the criminal justice system
- Interactive panel discussion - Funding, eligibility, NDIS, advocacy & support
- Interactive panel discussion - Models of accommodation / housing for people with ABI
- Community & vocational rehab programs
- Organization: European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Thu, Aug 13, 2015 - Fri, Aug 14, 2015
Citadines on Bourke Melbourne
131-135 Bourke St, 3000, Melbourne, Australia
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