program

PDF program to download

DAY ONE – MONDAY 8 APRIL

8.50 am	Registration
9.25 am	Welcome to Country
9.30 am	Welcome from the Academy Dr Oliver Mayo FAA FSTE
9.35 am	Introduction Associate Professor Maria Inacio, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
9.40 am	Opening address Professor Caroline McMillen, Chief Scientist for South Australia
9.55 am	Keynote: Dementia prevention: a critique of the evidence on risk factors from observational studies Professor Kaarin Anstey, UNSW and Neuroscience Research Australia
10.40 am	MORNING TEA
11.00 am	Session 1: Aged care and healthcare
11.00 am	Barriers and enablers to the use of outdoor spaces in aged care homes: a systematic review
	Dr Maayken Van Den Berg, Flinders University
11.15 am	Policy, discourse and the ageing citizen
	Ms Ellen Finlay, Neuroscience Research Australia
11.30 am	Culturally safe workforce models for rural and remote Indigenous organisations
	Dr Adriana Parrella and Mr Shane D'Angelo, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
11.45 am	Promoting healthy ageing through community aged care: new models to monitor client outcomes
	Dr Mikaela Jorgensen, Macquarie University
12.00 pm	Screening for deficits using the G8 and VES-13 in older patients with myelodysplastic syndromes
	Ms Michelle Wall, SA Health
12.15 pm	LUNCH AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
1.15 pm	Keynote: Review of the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Service: a failure of governance, leadership and culture Professor Nicholas Procter, University of South Australia
2.00 pm	Public engagement workshop Speaker Dr Jackie Street, University of Wollongong Facilitators Ms Julia Overton, Health Consumers Alliance of South Australia Ms Lenore de la Perrelle, Flinders University Dr Ashleigh Smith, University of South Australia Ms Anna Sheppeard, Consumer Representative, Registry of Older South Australians Research Committee Mr George Turley, Community Representative, Registry of Older South Australians Research Committee
3.15 pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45 pm	Session 2: Predictors of health and well-being
3.45 pm	Dementia and exceptional longevity: cognition, function and prevalent dementia in centenarians and near-centenarians of 18 studies across 11 countries
	Dr Yvonne Leung, UNSW
4.00 pm	Longitudinal predictors of self-reported health in older urban and regional Aboriginal Australians
	Dr Louise Lavrencic, Neuroscience Research Australia
4.15 pm	Monocytes from healthy older individuals are more atherogenic than those from younger individuals
	Dr Thomas Angelovich, RMIT University
4.30 pm	Short-term mortality among people admitted to residential aged care facilities in Australia
	Dr Jyoti Khadka, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
4.45 pm	Socioeconomic status, health behaviours and all-cause mortality: the Concord Health and Aging in Men Project
	Dr Saman Khalatbari Soltan, University of Sydney
5.00 pm	End of day 1
5.15 pm -7.15 pm	Networking cocktail reception

DAY TWO – TUESDAY 9 APRIL

9.00 am	Welcome coffee and tea
9.30 am	Welcome
9.35 am	Keynote: Getting to the heart of ageing Professor Bronwyn Kingwell, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
10.20 am	Public engagement panel and Q&A Panel Moderator Ms Jane Mussared, Chief Executive, COTA SA Panel Mr Graham Aitken, CEO, Aboriginal Community Services SA Ms Penelope McMillan, SA President, ME/CFS Australia Mr Ian Gladstone, Dementia Alliance International Ms Judy Smith, Consumer Liaison Officer, Royal District Nursing Service
11.00 am	MORNING TEA WITH CONSUMERS
11.45 am	Rapid-fire presentations
11.50 am	The energy requirements of adults aged 65 years and over using doubly labelled water: current evidence and opportunities for international data sharing
	Dr Kay Nguo, Monash University
11.55 am	Preventing Legionnaires disease in the home
	Dr Harriet Whiley, Flinders University
12.00 pm	Community participation, physical activity, loneliness and health-related quality of life in older adults: an observational study
	Miss Claire Gough, Flinders University
12.05 pm	The burden of mental health disorders in older Australians living in permanent residential aged care: implications for policy and quality of aged care practice
	Dr Azmeraw T Amare, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
12.10 pm	Valuing expert experience: involving people with lived experience of dementia and care providers in translational research
	Ms Lenore de la Perrelle, Flinders University
12.15 pm	Age at natural menopause and development of chronic conditions and multimorbidity: results from an Australian prospective cohort
	Mr Xiaolin Xu, University of Queensland
12.20 pm	Development of an in vitro cerebral organoid model to understand the role of APOE genotype in Alzheimer’s disease pathology.
	Dr Damian Hernandez, University of Melbourne
12.25 pm	Cognitive impairment following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 112 patients
	Miss Danielle Greaves, University of South Australia
12.30 pm	Healthy ageing through dignity of risk: starting the conversation
	Dr Carolyn Murray, University of South Australia
12.35 pm	Solitary days, solitary activities and associations with well-being among older adults
	Dr Jack Lam, University of Queensland
12.45 pm	LUNCH AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
1.30 pm	Session 3: Lifestyle, nutrition and ageing well
1.30 pm	A Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) for heart healthy ageing: what we know from Australian trials
	Dr Karen Murphy, University of South Australia
1.45 pm	Optimising 24-hour time use for healthy ageing
	Dr Dorothea Dumuid, University of South Australia
2.00 pm	The effect of a six-month high-intensity exercise intervention on verbal learning and memory
	Dr Belinda Brown, Murdoch University
2.15 pm	Developing a new quality of life instrument with older people for economic evaluation: findings from qualitative interviews with older people living in the community
	Dr Claire Hutchinson, Flinders University
2.30 pm	What is the meaning of good and healthy ageing for older Aboriginal Australians?
	Dr Kylie Radford, Neuroscience Research Australia
2.45 pm	Rapid-fire presentations
2.45 pm	Modifying the Mediterranean diet for an older Australian population: outcomes of the MedDairy and MedPork studies
	Ms Alexandra Wade, University of South Australia
2.50 pm	Embroidered electrodes for long-term monitoring of wound healing
	Ms Irini Logothetis, RMIT University
2.55 pm	Web platform to promote healthy eating and physical activity in adults with overweight and obesity
	Dr Alline Beleigoli, Flinders University

3.05 pm	People living in aged care homes need to BE outside not just SEE outside: associations between quality of life and outdoor access: a cross-sectional study
	Dr Suzanne Dyer, Flinders University
3.10 pm	Attitudes of older adults and caregivers in Australia towards deprescribing
	Dr Emily Reeve, University of South Australia
3.15 pm	Healthy ageing and age-friendly communities: moving beyond individuals to communities
	Dr Peta Cook, University of Tasmania
3.20 pm	Age-related changes in decision-making: a systematic review
	Ms Nicole Ee, Neuroscience Research Australia
3.30 pm	AFTERNOON TEA, PRIZES AND CLOSING REMARKS
4.00 pm	Conference closes

program

PDF program to download

Session 1: Aged care and healthcare

Public engagement workshop

Session 2: Predictors of health and well-being

Public engagement panel and Q&A

Rapid-fire presentations

Session 3: Lifestyle, nutrition and ageing well

Rapid-fire presentations