Michael Hardis
Michael Harders is a physiotherapist and Residential Aged Care Operations Manager at Optimum Allied Health, where he leads a 50-person residential aged care team.
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Jun 1, 2026
Michael HardisGUEST
About half of the time would be spent doing assessment and referral type work.
Michael HardisGUEST
So probably not that many people know that a physio or OT would be involved in figuring out how every single person in the home gets around.
Michael HardisGUEST
What sort of mattress they lay on, what sort of seat they sit in, all of the different aspects of how to move someone around the building and the safety of doing so.
Michael HardisGUEST
Plus a few other different areas of clinical topics like pain, edema management, falls and harm minimization.
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Rose PlaterHOST
When the Act says reablement, what specifically does it require providers to put in place? What would an auditor actually look for, Michael?