Aged Care Physiotherapist
Wollongong region
Erica Tarlinton, owner of Reliable Home Health, is a highly experienced Physiotherapist with over 15 years of expertise as a Clinical Lead in Aged Care. She provides compassionate and personalised care to older adults throughout the Wollongong and Illawarra region.
Erica focuses on meaningful and respectful engagement with her patients and has a broad understanding of the issues affecting older people in our community.
Education and Experience:
- Physiotherapy Clinical Lead in Aged Care at Bulli Hospital from 2009-2023
- Allied Health Portfolio Lead in Aged Care for ISLHD from 2022-2023
- Advanced Clinical Supervision Training in 2023
- Introduction to Vestibular Rehabilitation in 2023
- Project Lead - The GEM Project: Implementation of an Allied Health Aged Care Consultant role at Wollongong Hospital (2023)
- Subject matter expert for HETI (2022) for the revised BPSD handbook Resources - Assessment and Management of Behaviours and Psychological Symptoms associated with Dementia (BPSD) - A Summary Handbook
- ACI Frailty Forum Poster Presentation (2020) - A Physiotherapy Outpatient Program for Treatment of Frailty https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/570723/Event-Program-Frailty-Forum-7-February-2020.pdf
- Delivery of HETI Workplace Learning Grant with Dementia Australia - Enabling EDIE in 2022
- Subject matter expert with HETI on Dementia Training modules in My Health Learning in 2022
- Subject matter expert in My Health Learning Podcast - Frailty education for the multidisciplinary team in 2021
- ANZ Society of Sarcopenia and Frailty Research Conference attendance in 2019
- MOOC UTAS Understanding Dementia in 2011
- Post-Graduate Certificate Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation -The Melbourne University (2008)