Consumer engagement in Aged Care Services – An adaptive leadership challenge
1 October 2019
Consumer engagement in Aged Care Services – An adaptive leadership challenge
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Small steps, big changes: empowerment and inclusiveness needed for older Australians
22 March 2017
Empowering older people as active citizens to create inclusive connected communities
Creating a national community aged care system – Moving beyond individualised funding
3 December 2016
Creating a national community aged care system - Moving beyond individualised funding
Digital disruption in social care: friend or foe?
7 October 2016
The challenges and opportunities of digital disruption in social care
Consumer directed residential services - using co-production as a framework for action
15 September 2016
How to use a co-production framework to transform residential services to be consumer directed
Why Australia needs a social insurance scheme for older people
17 June 2016
Why Australia needs a social insurance scheme for older people
Power to Service Users - Evolutionary or Revolutionary?
1 December 2015
Australia’s community care system is changing. Existing structures of disability services and community aged care are being dismantled while new structures focused on choice and control are supposedly creating a service user focused community care system.
The Hon Micheal Kirby launches the first LGBTI Ageing Issue of the Australasian Journal of Ageing
5 November 2015
Yesterday the Hon Michael Kirby launched the first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Ageing and Aged Care Special Issue of the Australasian Journal on Ageing at the Australian Association of Gerontology conference in Alice Springs.
Meeting the leading thinkers and researchers in ageing in Australia
3 November 2015
I am very excited to be presenting at the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) Annual Conference in Alice Springs, that brings the leading thinkings and researchers on ageing together from across Australia.
Implementing Wellness and Reablement and Restorative Support with Older People - Seven Key Steps
27 October 2015
I am excited to be presenting a key note address to the Active Ageing Conference in Sydney on 29 October 2015. There are seven key steps that providers need to undertake to implement wellness and reablement with older people.
Cultural Respect and Consumer Directed Care
1 September 2015
Over the last month I have been facilitating workshops with front-line Aboriginal staff working across NSW to start a conversation about the changes being implemented in disability and aged care services.
Aged Care Reform – A technical or adaptive leadership challenge?
3 August 2015
At the end of July 2015 I facilitated two workshops with providers on the implementation of My Aged Care (MAC) and Regional Assessment Services (RAS).
Nothing about me without me - Older People as co-researchers
2 May 2015
Too often older people are not active participants and don’t have a voice in the research process. In many ageing research conferences I attend there are not many people presenting on action research with older people.
Meeting of the best thinkers in aged care
20 April 2015
It’s always great to see how other countries think about, legislate and deliver their aged care services. Where better to find out at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) European Region 8th Congress in Dublin.