Smoking kills… so does loneliness
Thu 10 Oct 2024

Smoking kills… so does loneliness

National Webinar

One in three Australians experience loneliness. People who experience persistent loneliness are at higher risk of negative mental, physical and cognitive health outcomes including a 26% increased risk of early mortality. Loneliness also impacts medication use. Hospital pharmacy professionals are in a unique position to help identify and respond to loneliness in their patients. This webinar will equip pharmacy professionals with knowledge and practical tips to support patients at risk, or experiencing loneliness.

This webinar will cover the following learning objectives:

  • Discuss the prevalence of loneliness in Australia
  • Describe how loneliness affects health outcomes
  • Discuss the role of hospital pharmacy staff in addressing loneliness in their patients

  
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$50

Jenny Kirschner, Pharmacist, Founder – Pharmacy Addressing Loneliness and Social-isolation (PALS), Melbourne, Vic

Jenny Kirschner, BPharm (Hons), has 20+ years experience in the healthcare and pharmacy sectors including as a clinical and retail pharmacist. She has a deeply personal experience of loneliness and is a passionate clinical entrepreneur who is out to inspire, educate and mobilise the entire pharmacy industry to address loneliness to improve community health and well-being at scale. Jenny is the founder of the PALS (Pharmacy Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation). PALS is the first international pharmacy initiative developing a road map for the pharmacy sector to address loneliness. The longer-term goal is for pharmacists to have an in-depth understanding of the health effects associated with loneliness, and how to address them, and for this to become an intrinsic part of pharmacy practice across Australia and globally. Jenny has been published in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy (AJP) and Australian Pharmacist (AP) on the topic of loneliness. In Australia, Jenny has presented on loneliness at peak national pharmacy education conferences (PSA conference), to the #1 global ranking (2023) pharmacy university (Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences) and at a Parliamentary House event championing the pivotal role that pharmacists can play in addressing loneliness.  Jenny is the creator of the World First Pharmacist Training program on Loneliness.

   

Gauri Godbole, FANZCAP (Geri Med, Pall Care, Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Aged Care and Palliative Care, Gosford Hospital, Gosford, NSW

Gauri Godbole is a specialist clinical pharmacist in aged and palliative care at Gosford Hospital, NSW, leveraging her extensive experience in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and academia to provide comprehensive care in her current role. She is the current chair of Advanced Pharmacy Australia's, Geriatric Medicine Specialty Practice Leadership Committee and is a member of Palliative care Specialty Practice Leadership Committee.

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