St Vincent’s Care has taken out the People & Culture award for its ASPIRE Program, designed to train graduate nurses with qualified and seasoned nursing professionals to help nurture and build their clinical skills, knowledge and confidence in the delivery of aged care. Also winning from St Vincent’s is Erin Hartwell – Senior Clinical Governance Officer, who took out this year’s Emerging Leader award.
Dementia Australia has again had success in a number of categories with awards in the Technology – Business, Dementia Care and Community Engagement areas. The highest-scoring entry in the overall awards was Dementia Australia’s Talk With Ted artificial intelligence avatar – a world-first in dementia education – offering carers a safe and immersive simulation experience.
Other winners include regional aged care provider Whiddon for their point-of-care rapid testing – allowing COVID-19 screening to be done without the need for external diagnosis support such as pathology. Whiddon was the first to trial Rapid Antigen and Rapid PCR testing in Australia, with lab-quality results within 90 minutes using a testing unit the size of a shoe box.
As previously explained, the awards results form an important part of Inside Ageing’s editorial agenda, with stories to do with both the winning and highly-commended entries presented in articles, events and webinars. For this reason, the judges are asked to score according to strict criteria designed to demonstrate the following:
- Genuine leadership & innovation
- Collaboration and engagement
- Evidence of success
- Scalable and sustainable
The strict criteria applied to the judging has seen some categories not award a winner, but instead a highly-commended, or in some cases no award at all.
No entries were received for the Indigenous Communities category and no awards were presented for the Property & Design, Restorative/Reablement, Supporting Independence and Research categories.
Congratulations to the 2022 winners and highly commended:
Consumer Experience
- Highly Commended: Care360 for their streamlined ‘care centre’ consolidating all of the financial and documentation management associated with the entire journey through aged care. Read more about this entry…
- Highly Commended: Home Care HQ for Australia’s first aged care newsletter specifically designed for consumers and carers receiving care and support at home – view the webinar where we talk with the founder of the newsletter Anna Millicer.
Community Engagement
- Winner: National Aged and Community Care Roundtable for Forgotten Australians – aimed at supporting over 500,000 children who were placed in institutional and out-of-home care around Australia between 1920 and 1989 – they are known as Forgotten Australians or Care Leavers and include the Stolen Generation and Former Child Migrants. The National Roundtable is directly aimed at improving the access, quality and appropriateness of services and support for Forgotten Australians as they age. Read more about this entry…
- Highly Commended: Dementia Australia for the Lithgow Dementia Support (LDS) group’s Creative Dementia Workshops – read more about this entry…
Dementia Care
- Winner: Dementia Australia for the Talk with Ted avatar – read more about this entry…
- Highly Commended: Southern Cross Care NSW & ACT for the Southern Cross Care Dementia Engagement Project – read more about this entry…
- Highly Commended: Anglicare Southern Queensland for The Specialist Dementia Care Program (SDCP) – Read more about this entry…
Palliative Care
- Winner: VMCH for their specialist end-of-life care and respite home, O’Neill House in Prahran, Victoria – read more about this entry…
People & Culture
- Winner: St Vincent’s Care for their ASPIRE Program, designed to train graduate nurses with qualified and seasoned nursing professionals to help nurture and build their clinical skills, knowledge and confidence in the delivery of aged care – read more about this entry…
Service Transformation
- Highly Commended: Violet Initiative and Goodwin Aged Care for the Violet last-stage-of-life support program. Read more about this entry…
Sustainability
- Highly Commended: Bolton Clarke for their sustainability solutions – particularly around energy efficiency. Read more about this entry…
Technology – Health & Wellbeing
- Winner: Whiddon for their point-of-care COVID-19 rapid testing – read more about this entry…
Technology – Business
- Winner: Dementia Australia for their Ask Annie mobile training app designed to help care workers better support those living with dementia – read more about this entry…
- Highly Commended: Lenexa Medical for their LenexaCARE system that converts traditional bed mattresses into smart patient monitoring platforms – helping to prevent pressure injuries – read more about this entry…
Emerging Leader
- Winner: Erin Hartwell – Senior Clinical Governance Officer – St Vincent’s Care – read more…
- Highly Commended: Arohi Patadia RN, Facility Manager, Marian Nursing Home – Southern Cross Care (NSW & ACT) – read more…
Entries for the 2023 Future of Ageing Awards open May 1, 2023 – For further information.
Thanks to those companies who have shown their support for the awards through a partnership. They are listed below:
