Transforming Aged Care for the Future
This post is authored by guest contributor Professor Vishaal Kishore, the Govt Chair of the Cisco-RMIT Wellbeing Transformation Lab
The new report of the Australian Royal Fee into Aged Care Quality and Protection tells us two critical issues. 1st – a thing systemic is heading on in aged care: the aspects of the process are not doing the job together to make optimum results. Next – the issue is just one of respect: our technique is not dealing with men and women the way that they ought to be taken care of.
Our obstacle is to find a way to make the Australian aged care method at the same time a lot more connected, and a lot more compassionate. And this is where technological innovation has a crucial part to play – but the part is a intricate a person. Completed correct, technological know-how can be main to generating our method additional respectful. Accomplished poorly, technology can basically lead to producing a disrespectful procedure extra productive at currently being disrespectful.
At the Wellbeing Transformation Lab, we – alongside with Cisco – established out to discover the profound part that technological know-how can enjoy in reorienting our aged care programs about relationship and regard. But those people of us who work in innovation in the care economic system know that phrases are not more than enough – so we established out not just to generate about why engineering can renovate aged treatment, but also to demonstrate how. The conclude end result is one thing of which we all are deeply happy – in a handful of short months RMIT and Cisco had been equipped to demonstrate how know-how could be made use of to enhance the working experience of persons in aged treatment and also absolutely free up much needed time for staff members to target on their core purpose: providing care.
Possibly most excitingly, these technologies all exist suitable now – our job is just to set up them and deploy them in new and interesting methods.
In the coming months, the Overall health Transformation Lab is hunting to do the job with industry partners, companies and many others fascinated in performing a little something significant to make improvements to the life of folks acquiring aged treatment companies in a multitude of settings. Primarily based on our initial demonstrations I am self-confident that government and the sector broadly will start to recognize that know-how is not something to be balanced in opposition to ‘human-to-human’ treatment, but somewhat the very factor that permits it.
To discover extra about how the collaboration with Cisco combines study and technological innovation to tackle important suggestions, examine our report on Transforming Aged Treatment.
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