Resources
Browse resources created and collated by ARIIA as a trusted, evidence-based guide to supporting innovation across the aged care sector.
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Mental wellbeing at work
This guideline by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence covers how to create the right conditions for mental wellbeing at work. It aims to promote a supportive and inclusive work environment.
Is your organization at risk for burnout?
This tool by the Workplace Strategies for Mental Health can help you assess your work-related stress which can contribute to burnout. (Clicking on the link will download a PDF.)
Identifying and managing fatigue and burnout during COVID-19
This guide by Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance helps organisations and businesses understand the impact of fatigue in the workplace and provides practical steps to minimise these impacts in the workplace.
Doing what matters in times of stress: an illustrated guide
The guide by World Health Organization aims to equip people with practical skills to help cope with stress. It is available in a number of different languages.
Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook
This workbook by The Wellness society provides tools and techniques for reducing stress and anxiety arising from the covid 19 pandemic.
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
Burnout is preventable. According to an article Harvard Business Review it requires good organizational hygiene, better data, asking more timely and relevant questions, smarter budgeting (more micro-budgeting), and ensuring that wellness offerings are included as part of your well-being strategy.
Am I at risk for burnout?
This tool by the Workplace Strategies for Mental Health can help you assess your work-related stress which can contribute to burnout. (Clicking on the link will download a PDF.)
End-of-life project builds aged care palliative care capacity
Shona McQueen from Catholic Health Australia describes the work of End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC). This initiative, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, aims to improve the aged care workforce’s capacity to provide quality palliative and advance care planning.
Dear reader, what are meaningful activities?
In explaining the meaning of ‘meaningful activities’, Judith Leeson, Director of Vector Consultants, poses this question to her readers: How would you want to spend your days in residential aged care?
Helping people take control of their ageing journey
Despite a plethora of information on healthy ageing through reabling approaches, there continues to be an entrenched stereotype of individual ageing as an inevitable process of decline over which we have little control. Hilary O’Connell of iLA describes LiveUp—an initiative promoting early intervention to delay the decline of a person’s capacity to live or function independently.