{"id":883,"date":"2016-10-13T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/?p=883"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T03:26:11","slug":"ageing-seminar-and-workshop-in-alice-springs-with-dr-nancy-pachana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/2016\/10\/13\/ageing-seminar-and-workshop-in-alice-springs-with-dr-nancy-pachana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing seminar and workshop in Alice Springs with Dr Nancy Pachana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/files\/2016\/10\/Tim-Carey-and-Nancy-Pachana.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-895\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-895\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/files\/2016\/10\/Tim-Carey-and-Nancy-Pachana-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Nancy Pachana and Professor Tim Carey visiting the sights around Alice Springs\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/Tim-Carey-and-Nancy-Pachana-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/10\/Tim-Carey-and-Nancy-Pachana.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Nancy Pachana and Professor Tim Carey visiting the sights around Alice Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On September 29 and 30 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crh.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Remote Health<\/a> (CRH) in Alice Springs was privileged to welcome Dr Nancy Pachana to deliver an information seminar and workshop on ageing, for professionals interested in or currently working with older adults.<\/p>\n<p>24 participants attended the 1 hour \u2018Ageing Past, Present and Future\u2019 seminar held on Thursday evening. Friday\u2019s half day workshop, \u2018Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Aspects of Key Disorders in Later Life: Anxiety, Substance Abuse, Sleep Disorders and Dementia\u2019 was well attended by 30 attendees. This workshop looked at assessment, diagnosis and treatment of older adults and how psychiatric disorders of later life differ from younger adults and similar disorders at earlier life stages. It also highlighted key points of assessment, diagnosis and\/or treatment options for anxiety, substance abuse, sleep disorders and dementia in later life.<\/p>\n<p>Of the evaluations received many participants agreed or strongly agreed that the training expanded their knowledge.\u00a0 Dr Pachana\u2019s visit was supported by CRH Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/tim.carey\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Tim Carey<\/a> and CRH Mental Health Academic, Tanja Hirvonen.<\/p>\n<p>These visits provide great opportunities for practitioners working in remote Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 29 and 30 the Centre for Remote Health (CRH) in Alice Springs was privileged to welcome Dr Nancy Pachana to deliver an information seminar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-for-remote-health"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}