CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing team heads to Perth

On November 8-10 members of the CRE in Frailty & Healthy Ageing attended The 50th Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) conference in Perth, WA.

The theme for the conference this year was “Ageing: the Golden Opportunity”. CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing chief investigator Dr Helen Barrie was the presiding president of the AAG and led a symposium on “Ageing Well and the Built Environment” including her presentation “What it Means to Age Well in a Retirement Village”.

Research fellow Dr Joanne Dollard presented her research on “Technological Falls Prevention in Hospitalised Older People”. PhD scholar Dr Beatriz Martins presented her research on “Planning and Design of Public Spaces to Support Ageing Well” whilst fellow PhD scholar Rachel Ambagtsheer presented on “Re-inventing Photovoice: exploring healthy ageing concepts among retirement village residents”.

The conference provided a forum to reflect on and re-imagine the incredible potential of our ageing society.