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Key Speakers

We are pleased to announce the following key speakers for the IFA 10th Global Conference. Visit the speakers page for more information.

Pre-Conference

Senior Government Officials Meeting

The Senior Government Officials Meeting, coinciding with the IFA 10th Global Conference on Ageing, will be held on May 3rd, 2010 in Melbourne. The theme for this meeting will be 'Social Inclusion for an Ageing Population', and the meeting will attract many high profile attendees such as the new US Assistant Secretary for Aging, Kathy Greenlee. Click here for more information.

Site Visits of Age-Friendly Facilities

An opportunity to visit one of five organisations that provide a range of community, residential care aged and strength training programmes for seniors in metropolitan Melbourne, is being offered to conference delegates on Monday 3rd May 2010. Age-friendly facilities include Jewish Care, mecwacare, The Brotherhood of St Laurence, Wintringham and Living Longer, Living Stronger. Click here for more information.

Post Conference

Age friendly Environments Post Conference Workshop on ‘WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities’

Friday 7 May 2010
Facilitated by Dr John Beard (Department of Ageing and Life Course, WHO) and Dr Jane Barratt, (International Federation on Ageing)

The main goals of the workshop are to provide an opportunity for cities who are members of the WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities©, or who are interested in becoming members, to understand more about the current status of this global movement, to learn about recent related initiatives from around the world and to explore the best ways for developing the network so that it will adequately support their needs.

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Conference

Program

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 NGO’s  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

To view the conference program, please click here.