The 51st Australian Association of Gerontology Conference

21-23 November CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing researchers and students took part in the conference in Melbourne, Australia.

During November CRE Researchers and students took part in the 51st Australian Association of Gerontology conference in Melbourne. The special theme of this years conference was 'Advancing Not Retiring: Active Players, A Fair Future'.

The plenary speaker for the event was Professor Sir Michael Marmot- Director of the International Institute for Society
and Health, MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London. Prof Marmot discussed “Social determinants of health, the life course, and healthy ageing”.

On Wednesday CRE Frailty Research Fellow and PhD candidate Rachel Ambagtsheer presented “An electronic Frailty Index for Australian general practice” during the Innovation and Technology oral presentations. Dr Helen Barrie, CRE Frailty demographer and gerontologist, gave a presentation on ‘Using citizen science to explore neighbourhood influences on ageing well’ during the Ageing Well program on Thursday.

On Friday CRE Frailty researcher Dr Danielle Taylor presented her work on “Developing a spatial socio-environment healthy ageing index” whilst Dr Agathe Daria Jadczak discussed “Interns’ perceived competence in counselling older adults about exercise: findings from a 3-year South Australian study” during the Falls and Exercise program.

Despite the cold and rainy weather the three day event was a great success bringing experts together from around Australia and the world to share research and learn from a network of researchers, advocates, clinicans and students.