Lynette Mackenzie

Thread: Upcoming changes to testing and isolation. From Sunday 1 May, most people will no longer be asked to take a PCR test if they have #coronavirus symptoms. Instead, you should stay at home if you feel unwell.

#OTUSyd21 @mac_lynette #Australian delegate @WFOT, worked with @KaelinVera 🇺🇸, @InaRoosen 🇩🇪Patrick Hynes 🇮🇪@AOTInews and @AnnikaLexen🇸🇪 to capture the diversity of #occupationaltherapy research globally. Learn more about what they found 👉tinyurl.com/OTUSyd21 @syd_health

The Occupational Therapy team @syd_health is hosting our annual research symposium. Check out our program, tinyurl.com/OTUSyd21 , share with your colleagues and sign up to attend this FREE event #OTUSyd21 #occupationaltherapy #research

Does anyone live in the Ryde local government area in Sydney? or knows people that do? If yes, please go to: nsw.gov.au/improving-nsw/… and vote for my project on translating the HOME FAST into five languages for older people from CALD communities!

Paper published on the scoring of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Check out a pilot paper undertaken in the UK about GPs interventions for falls prevention: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

DO YOU VISIT PEOPLE AT THEIR HOME AS PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY WORK IN HEALTH OR WELFARE SERVICES? If so, please take this survey and read the study information here: redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=TTL… Please retweet or pass on to someone for whom this would be relevant!

What is the lived experience of people with severe breathing difficulties? This is a common problem in the community. Research published in BJOT at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Anne and my paper from her RCOT grant!

What do people with lived experience of mental illness expect to see in health professional curricula? New article published in AOTJ provides challenges to Universities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #mentalhealth #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness

Can older people in Australia and Ireland use technology to help prevent falls? We need to address the digital gap for older people. See article published in Ageing and Society cambridge.org/core/journals/… #fallsprevention

Hear from GPs, OTs & PTs about falls prevention in primary care in the West of Ireland. Paper published this month in BJOT journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… #fallsprevention

What do we know about housework performance? Who does it? Time spent on housework? How OTs assess it? Scoping review published in BJOT journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… #occupationaltherapy #housework

Paper in early view of AOTJ showing that a score of 9 or more on the HomeFAST is associated with falling. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Deadline for abstracts for the OT Australia conference in Sydney in 2019 has been extended twitter.com/otaust/status/…

New article published today: Making fall prevention routine in primary care practice: perspectives of allied health professionals rdcu.be/3ZMm

Paper published in AOTJ on the OT role in caring for cancer survivors: see onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Elf on the Shelf exposes 'horrendous situations' facing wheelchair users every day m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/alfie-el…

@Em_Warby @OTBeth131 @gra_carley What fun!

Paper just published in AOTJ about the role of occupational therapy in cancer survivorship. See: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28513084