Exhibitors
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Programme
outline at a glance
(subject to change - as at June 2009)
Thursday 8th October, 2009
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Time |
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| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Registration |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Resilience and
Challenge in the Wellbeing of Older New Zealanders
Charles Waldegrave & Peter King
Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Morning tea |
| 10.30 - 12.00 |
Concurrent paper
sessions
Retirement
Retirement: his, hers and theirs?
Sally Keeling
Three health pathways into retirement:
Maximising healthy finite years, Protecting Health, and poor
Health
Rachael Pond
Professional Woman’s Transition to and Experience of Retirement
Ruth Mortimer
QoL
Social, Leisure and Everyday Activities that Occupy People Living
in Advanced Age
Valerie Wright-St Clair
Do happiness-enhancing activities impact on the well-being of older
adults?
Annette Henricksen
Shopping matters! Ageing and consumption experiences
Juliana Mansvelt
Dementia Symposium
Improving responses to dementia through system design
Roz Sorensen
Dementia in New Zealand Chinese Migrants
Gary Cheung
What can we learn from the findings of mental health research?
Responding to the spiritual needs of people with dementia
Chris Perkins
Developing a Nurse Practitioner Role in an Elder Care Setting.
Truth or Dare?
Sylvia Meijer
What factors make proactive health education interventions
effective for older adults? A case study of the Senior Smart
Healthy Ageing Motivation Program
Jason Fox
The impacts on adult children of family and whanau responsibility
for elder family members: participant voices
Judy Wivell
Kaupapa Maori
Pinnacle of Life: What can we learn from Kaumatua who have reached
an advanced age?
Lorna Dyall
Homai to hono: Forging customary, conventional and theological
healing practices within a rural-based hapu community
Rawiri Tinirau
Resilient Whanau: Koroua & Kuia contribution to Whanau
wellbeing in Turanganui A Kiwa
Reweti Ropiha
Integrated Living
Workshop
Intergenerational Living – Seniors’ Intergrational in to the
Community
Grant With
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12.00 |
Lunch |
| 1.00 - 2.00 |
Keynote Address - Associate Professor Nancy Pachana,
University of Queensland
Assessing Anxiety In Later
Life
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| 2.00 - 3.30 |
Concurrent paper
sessions
Retirement continued
Quality of work life and intended age of retirement
Fiona Alpass
The Retirement Planning Inventory: Theoretical Foundational and
Preliminary Findings
Jack Noone
Retirement in 2025: a Delphi study
Rhonda Schlaadt
QoL continued
Experiences and Adaptive Responses Toward Ageing Among Elderly
Filipino Women
Junnile Paat
Frailty, function and quality of life in people living to advanced
age
Karen Hayman
Coping with medications and copying with life: two sides of the
same coin?
Lorraine Ritchie
Dementia Care
Responding to dementia and wareware mate: Future service needs,
possibilities and responsibilities
Betsan Martin
Dementia: Who cares? A comparison of community needs and primary
care services in Mackay, Queensland
Fiona Millard
Trial of an information package to improve the sleep of careers of
people with dementia
Sandy Sacre
Elder Care Work
The Eden Alternative Journey: Does it increase staff and resident
satisfaction?
Nicola Turner
Workplace distance education for care/support workers working in
aged care
Alexa Andrew
Aged-care and workforce implications in New Zealand
Juthika Badkar
Specific Populations
Sometimes I just feel a bit trapped: The Changing roles of
Grandparents
Anne Kerslake-hendricks
Ageing, Diversity and ‘Pink Power’
Allison Kirman
Should veterans be considered as a special population? How
can society best serve them?
Margaret Snow
Spotlight Session
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| 3.30 - 4.00 |
Poster session and afternoon tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 |
Concurrent paper
sessions
Ageing in place
Resilient Ageing in Place: Improving the lives of older people in
New Zealand communities
Janine Wiles
Ageing in Place – A case study
Rosemary Harris
Home versus residential placement – what’s best for our elderly
clients?
Vanessa Pullan
QoL continued
Transitions into Supported Independence
Beatrice Hale
‘It works both ways’ Experiences and expectations of support
amongst childless older people
Ruth Allen
‘Life-worlds’ of older people living in New Zealand rest homes
Liz Kiata
Mental Health Care
Mental Health and Older People: ‘Mind the Gap’
Max Reid
The prevention of delirium in older people in the acute care
setting: An evaluation of the uptake and utility of guidelines
adapted by health care professionals
Isabel Higgins
Reflections on Melbourne’s St
Joseph’s Hostel for elderly Anglo-Indians
Robyn Andrews
Elder Care Symposium
Development of a nurse practitioner role within assessment,
treatment and rehabilitation services for older adults
Helen Bowen
OPAL: Older Persons’ Ability Level
Auckland Aged Care Ability Census 10/9/08
Michal Boyd
The residential aged care integration programme impacts acute care
utilization
Janet Parker
The Waitemata DHB RN Care Guides for residential aged care
Carole Pilcher
Physical Activity
ACC and Injury Prevention – Preventing falls in older adults
Ann Rose
Community-based Peer-led minimal intervention falls prevention
exercise classes
Debra Waters
Peer-led Gait and Balance Classes: Perspectives of the leaders and
participants
Linda Robertson
Spotlight Session
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7.00
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Conference Dinner |
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