{"id":1946,"date":"2018-12-11T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2018-12-11T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:25:57","slug":"making-ageing-a-time-of-strong-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/2018\/12\/11\/making-ageing-a-time-of-strong-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Making ageing a time of strong engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/annie.farthing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annie Farthing<\/a>, Allied Health Academic at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.org.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Remote Health<\/a> and Vice President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aag.asn.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Association of Gerontology<\/a> (AAG), attended the AAG annual conference in Melbourne in November. The conference offered a great opportunity to shed light on its theme &#8216;Advancing not Retiring&#8217; and presented research, practice and education about \u2018active players, a fair future\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we are starting to live longer we have more time to contribute to society, and every sector of society can have a role in making ageing a time of strong engagement\u201d, said AAG President, Associate Professor Christine Stirling.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sir Michael Marmot was the International Gary Andrew Fellow and gave the conference a focus on the challenges of a fair future for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-conference workshops included <em>Addressing aged care workforce issues in rural and remote Australia<\/em>, and <em>Exploring appropriate aged care needs assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people<\/em> hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on both these workshops will be released in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Farthing, Allied Health Academic at the Centre for Remote Health and Vice President of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG), attended the AAG annual conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-remote-health"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}