Aged Care
Subject Specialist
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| Paulina Reinoga | |
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| Moreland Campus Librarian | |
| Phone: | (03) 9094 3324 |
| Email: | preinoga@kangan.edu.au |
Highly Recommended Resources
- Health and Well-being Online Resources
Learning objects created for Kangan students - Oxford Reference Online offers links to a variety of subject-specific resources
- medi-smart is a site for nursing education resources
- Cochrane Library research on the effects of health care
Websites
- Salem Press - On campus access
- Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
- Department of Health and Ageing
- Alzheimer's Association of Australia
- Aged & Community Services Australia
- Victorian Government Health Information - Aged Care
- National Library of Medicine (USA)
- OH&S online videos - SafetyCare Montie has many safety programs which can be viewed, topics include fire awareness, personal protection, manual handling.
Catalogue
Search Library Catalogue - enter specific topics (e.g. nursing home care) in the keyword search box or look directly on the shelves at these numbers:
| Topic | Shelf number |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer's disease | 616.831 |
| Care of the sick | 610.73069 |
| Dementia | 362.19683 |
| Geriatric nursing | 618.970231 |
| Nursing home care | |
| Nursing homes, Australia | 618.9702310994 |
Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines
EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre
Search Australasian magazines, newspapers and books
Titles include: Australian & New Zealand Continence Journal, Brain Impairment, Geriaction, Journal of Dementia Care, Journal of Wound Care, Nursing, Nursing Times
Infotrac: General OneFile
Search articles from a large range of journals.
Titles include: Alzheimer's Care, Quarterly, Geriatric Times, Geriatrics, Nursing Older People, Topics in Geriatric, Rehabilitation
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
Contact your subject specialist to book an online database training session or click on EBSCOhost or click on Infotrac (Power Search).
Magazines
- Geriaction, Insite: Aged Care Industry News, Journal of Dementia Care
CD/DVD-ROMs
- Ageing - 305.26 AGE
- Caring for the Frail and Immobile - 362.6 CAR
- How the Body Ages - 612.67 HOW
- Welcome to Aged Care - 362.60994 WEL
For additional DVDs and branch locations search the KI Catalogue.
