Amplifying the voices of older people in Aotearoa New Zealand
In the report the commissioner makes 20 recommendations which she believes will work to improve the provision of quality health and disability services for older people now and in the future.
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Oral health, Equity and Ageing: SEMINAR
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Oral health in older people is a wicked problem representing the intersections of societal issues, structural and systemic failures and the invisibility of some health issues...
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AWESSoM Symposium 2024
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Ageing Well through Eating, Sleeping, Socialising and Mobility
An ageing population ensures the health of older people becomes increasingly important in NZ and worlwide. Increasing diversity in older populations and persisting health disparities into advanced age call for action to improve health and wellbeing of older adults...
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‘Minds Together’ Programme - Alzheimers Otago
Otago’s Minds Together showcases power of intergenerational relationshipsMonday 6 May, 2024 www.alzheimers.org.nz Blog A new, intergenerational programme ‘Minds Together’ has both people living with …
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HDC launches consultation on review of the Act and Code
From the: Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner We are pleased to announce that HDC has today launched public consultation on its review to the Code of Health and Disability Services Consu…
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$10,000 RM Gibson grants now open
We are pleased to announce that grants made available under the 2024 RM Gibson program of the AAG Research Trust are now open. RM Gibson grants are open to AAG members who are in the early stages o…
Ethics in Dementia Care Course 2-5 July 2024
Ethics in Dementia Care Course 2-5 July 2024 The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the KU Leuven is organizing the 10th edition of the Summer Course on Ethics in Dementia Care (Leuven, Belgium,…
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Speaker Highlight - 2023 NZAG Conference - Dr Andrew Kingston
Andrew is a Chartered Statistician with a PhD in statistical epidemiology, and uses complex longitudinal data and advanced statistical techniques to understand how health outcomes unfold over time.
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AI and older people - Webinar Recording Now available
Dr Kevin Ross (CEO Precision Driven Health) What is AI ? Dr Ross offers a good introduction of AI and ADM, where we are and where we are heading. And demonstrates probabilistic text generation using C…
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Opportunity to connect
Associate Professor Martin Hyde (Swansea University, UK) will be an international speaker at the June 7th 1-day symposium. He will also be in the country between 7th-20th June 2023 working with Dr And…