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3-6 May 2010
Melbourne, Australia
Climate for change, ageing into the future Topics and Themes: Symposia, workshops, oral and poster presentations from around the world - including from the Indian sub-continent, Singapore, Japan, Northern Europe, Ireland, Germany, the UK, Canada, the US, the Middle East, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, embrace the diversity of older people across a range of critical issues including the key themes of: Healthy Ageing: - International perspectives on active ageing
- Local communities and older people – creating age-friendly and healthy places
- Ageing and sexual expression
- Perspectives on working into older age
- Maintaining health into older age – programs, activities, health promotion and disease prevention
- Addressing the impacts of chronic health conditions into older age
Social Inclusion:
- People with dementia – international perspectives on housing, independent living and programs
- Growing older with a disability – issues for the future
- Improving the lives of older people by using technology
- Ageing in a foreign land – culturally specific responses to the ageing community
- Initiatives of community agencies and NGOs working with older people
- The experience of ageing – gender perspectives
Climate Change:
- Creating a climate for environmental change
- The impact of climate change on older people – regional issues, government policy and community response
- Climate change and environmental sustainability – the contribution of older people to new wisdom
- Building assistance for older people into disaster response and sudden environmental change – getting better outcomes for older people
- Responding to climate change – Exploring aged care sector response to climate change
- Public policy response to climate change and its impact on older people
Resourcing Change:
- The economic impacts of ageing communities
- An exploration of working into older age – choice or no choice - government policies, programs, workplace initiatives and the need to work to maintain income
- The concept of age friendliness – international ideas, initiatives, policy and practice
- Age-friendly design – design initiatives for the built environment, houses and retirement and care facilities
- Residential aged care into the future
- The aged care workforce – attracting, training, valuing and retaining the workforce
- Growing older gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transsexual or intersex – policy and practice in response to diversity
Human Rights:
- International perspectives on human rights law and older people
- Elder abuse – issues, responses, policy and change
- Government responses to elder abuse – policies and practice
- ’In the best interest’ – legal issues around decisions with and for older people – policy and practice
- Exploring global issues on elder abuse
- Protecting human rights of older people in diverse communities
- Translating human rights into legislation – working toward a convention on human rights and older people
> For more information visit the conference website.
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