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Please note that program is subject to change.

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