Healthy Ageing Research Unit News and Seminars

2008 FREE SEMINAR SERIES

"Building an environment for an ageing society: Physical and social planning "

The seminar will examine how older people manage change in their physical and social environments, drawing on case studies from Australia and overseas to illustrate different strategies, such as continuity and adaptation, resilience, reconstruction and juggling. This seminar will complement the previous seminar which focused on the structural environment by exploring what is happening at the micro level, amongst older people themselves. The presentations will address a range of topics, from how older people navigate unfamiliar spaces, the evidence around retirement communities through to the challenges of working carers. The seminar will consider how major social themes such as social inclusion and ageing in place can be addressed through policy. The seminar will reflect on how policy, practice, theory and research can work together to address physical and social planning.

Reports of the first seminar on 25 June, 2008

Reports of the second seminar on 28 August, 2008

LATEST NEWS

Australian Association of Gerontology 41st National Conference

Australian Association of Gerontology 41st National Conference was held on 18 - 21 November 2008 in Perth. Below are the presentations by our research team.

• Retail therapy: looking as access to shops through a food security lens - presentated by Jane Sims, Harriet Radermacher, Susan Feldman
• Food for all - presentated by Harriet Radermacher and Susan Feldman

ERA Exchange program

The ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well has provided funding for two national (up to $5,000 each) and one international (up to $10,000) exchange for PhD students who are currently enrolled at an Australian university and whose research is strongly focused on issues to do with human ageing.  Applications are to be made online by the 27th February 2009.  Please click here for further details.  Please note that before applying for the funding, you need to have made provisional arrangements for your exchange with the host institution and host supervisor/s.

"Wicked Widows" and "Never Too Old" will be on show

"Wicked Widows" and "Never Too Old" by Alan Hopgood will be on show on 21, 22, 28, 29, 30 October 2008.

More details click here.

‘Widows - More than a Dead Man’s Wife’ – where art meets research