On Friday 8th of September The CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing, TQEH Aged and Extended Care Services and the Adelaide Geriatrics Training & Research with Aged Care Centre hosted a community event to showcase the wide range of research taking place in the field of frailty and healthy ageing.
The event was held at the beautiful Adelaide Pavilion in Veale Gardens and was hosted by Jane Mussared, the chief executive of Council on the Ageing SA (COTA SA).
The keynote speaker, Prof Mary Luszcz is a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Gerontology at the Flinders University School of Psychology and the Director of the Flinders Centre for Ageing Studies. Her vast body of research aimed to identify personal, psychological and social/environmental resources that promote ageing well. Professor Luszcz’s presentation ‘How I survived 40 years of research on Ageing’ was a fascinating and entertaining discussion covering highlights from her broad career in research in the field of ageing.
In the morning session was a series of 8 short seminars across a diverse range of topics in ageing from oral health, environment and neighbourhoods, frailty screening, lung function and muscle loss and even to frailty screening work being undertaken in neighbouring Malaysia. The speakers included higher degree students as well as early and mid-career research fellows.
After lunch there was a table top session where a researcher was assigned to each table to discuss their research work in a more informal setting. This allowed guests to ask questions and have important conversations about the research and give feedback to the
researchers. After 10 minutes the researchers would rotate to a new table and discuss their work. The session was great fun and both guests and speakers got thoroughly absorbed in the activities with lots of discussion and in depth questions being asked.
The event was made possible by generous funding from Resthaven Inc and we would like to thank them for allowing us the opportunity to share our research.
