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Wednesday 7th October, 2009
Time  
8.00 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 10.00 Powhiri
Welcome from NZAG and ACNZ
Official opening
10.00 - 10.30 Morning tea
10.30 - 12.00 Concurrent paper sessions

Older Workers
Is working later our future? Older New Zealanders in the labour force
Ahmad Mansoor Khawaja

Maintaining and Promoting an Ageing Workforce: International Trends and Innovations
Marilyn Luptak

Gender Differences in Later Life Labour Supply
Angela Curl

Ageing Population
Project to enhance population ageing research in New Zealand
Virginia Wilton

Growing up and growing older – exploring baby boomers identity and expectations
Kathy Glasgow

Economic living standards of older people: inequalities and health

Health Care
Self-Management of Chronic Conditions in Ageing Population
Natalia Valentino

Establishing a kaitautoko-led, technology-enabled chronic care management service to support people with long-term conditions at home
Anton Venter

Partnering in Primary Care in New Zealand: Practice Nurses use the Flinders Model with older people
Faith Mahony

Migrant Groups
Enjoyment of life after 70.  Comparisons between pre 1980 migrants and the NZ born
Regina Pernice

I want to have my own small home: Ageing in a Place of Older Chinese Immigrants
Wendy Li

Localising ‘filial piety’: Practicing respect and care for older people among Korean immigrants in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jae-Hong Park

Justice and Ethics
Do those individuals who are afflicted with dementia have a moral duty to die?
Phillipa Malpas

Exploring the concept of occupational justice for people with dementia
Grace O’Sullivan

When morals and markets collide: Towards an exploration of an ethic of care within the rest home sector
Martin Woods
12.00   Lunch
1.00 - 2.00 Keynote Speaker - Professor Alan Walker, Sheffield University UK
Active Ageing: Its Promise and Potential
2.00 - 3.30 Concurrent paper sessions

Older Workers Continued
Who is working at age 65?
Philip Spier

Motivations and barriers around working for 65 year olds
Joanna Broad

Flexible conditions for older workers – what are they and how can they benefit workers and their employers?
Judith Davey

Community Ageing Policy
Sustainable Communities for an Ageing Population
Amanda Barusch

Policy for Developing Age Friendly Communities: people, process and planning progress in a New Zealand beachside community
Carole Gordon

Elder Care Canterbury – The community working together to integrate and improve health services for the wellbeing of Canterbury’s older people
Dianne Smith

Health Care Continued
Responding to the ageing profile of Emergency Department Patients
Keith Hill

The experiences of older people who are readmitted to hospital
Sophie Dilworth

Medicines taking amongst people 75 years and older in an urban setting in New Zealand
June Tordoff

Resilience & Vulnerability
Who gets what? Successes and Challenges of diversities of an ageing population
Janferie Bryce-Chapman

Disasters and older adults: case studies of vulnerability and resilience
Robyn Tuohy

Ageing with intellectual disability: the implications for policy.  Lessons from the UK
Carol Walker

Elder Abuse Workshop
Handling complexity: Developing elder abuse assessment and intervention procedures for health social workers
Verna Schofield

Elder Abuse and Neglect Prevention Training
Susan Gould

A local response to local needs
Rachel Ellison 
3.30 - 4.00 Poster session and afternoon tea
4.00 - 5.00 Concurrent paper sessions

Social Capital
Strong and weak ties: the social capital of older people in the Australian coastal resort
Felicity Barr

Mechanisms of social capital creation: an ethnography of a licensed social club and its older users
Virginia Simpson-Young

Local Government Workshop
Local government and communities working together in an ageing society
Leighton Littlewood

Celebration the Golden Years: A community’s experience of improving older adults’ wellbeing
Virginia Barker

Oral Health Care
Round table discussion on oral health and ageing
Lisbeth Gronbaek

Nutrition
Nutrition risk screening in community-living older people
Sally Watson

The Eating Environment in the Residential Care Settling
Julian Jensen

Elder Abuse Symposium
A multi-disciplinary response to elder abuse and neglect
Jayne McKendry

Research Workshop
 ‘Developing research capabilities’
Sally Keeling
6.00 - 7.00 Welcome cocktail Party
   

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