Watch this space for progress of our research running a real-life version of the TV show Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds! Team includes @StephanieAlis18@Krockdoc@AnnieSegaert1@NicoleAEe among others!
Working on a v exciting intergenerational engagement project and seeking consumer perspectives to inform our design and planning, would appreciate if you could share this survey to your networks!
If you are 18+ and live in #Australia, please spare a few minutes to share your thoughts about #intergenerational interactions at: https://t.co/HSlx2ETjnY
Lead by Dr @ruth_peters_ & funded by @AgeingFutures, this project will contribute to design of future community programmes
It’s so heartening to see how people are coming together with thoughtfulness, care and creativity to brave this crisis. Reminded daily of the kindness that exists all around.
Credit to the 90+ other amazing minds who I was lucky to be able to work alongside and learn from. @anna_hickling, who is an absolute gun, Prof Harvey Whitford, @LSharpeUSYD, Dr Mandy Yap, @simon_rosenbaum@kimcornishmona1 @HSkouteris to name a few.
Australia’s #Go8 Universities have brought together almost 100 of Australia’s top university researchers to investigate a pathway back to the Australian way of life and work. @Shitij_Kapur@timvangelder @greghuntMP @nicoleAEe https://t.co/C2GWsk8MdO
Prof Marian Baird inspiring emerging researchers in ageing to impact policy in different ways. My favorite being the “action research” framework which values social change as methodology. #ERA2019CEPAR@ERA_Australia@CEPAR_research@UNSW
As we wrap up #AAIC19, we are more optimistic than ever before about the future for treatment & early detection of Alzheimer’s & other dementias. Thank you to the nearly 6,000 leaders in dementia research who shared ideas and developments this week. #AAIC19#ENDALZ
Great platform by Sanne Franzen advocating for cultural sensitivity in cognitive screening and broader methodological approaches within dementia research. #usetheRUDAS@AlzheimerEMC#AAIC19
Gems of wisdom from Dr Shane Liddelow at #AAIC2019 day 3 plenary. To mentees: “choose wisely” in terms of your mentorship and field. To mentors “you cannot eat your young and expect science to progress”. Just icing on the cake after a great update the astrocytes & microglia space
Lifeline has launched Australia’s first Twitter Bot that provides information for individuals supporting others who may be experiencing thoughts of suicide or self-harm. Help is available, chat with us now. #BeALifeline
“Supervisors need comprehensive, compulsory training to identify, assist and understand researchers facing mental-health problems.”
Amen to that.
https://t.co/x2lydWS1gN
This weekend’s lovely young people’s action is from 5 year old George. No action is too small, everything can help make a difference to those affected by dementia.
Glad to be able to finally let this this one out of the bag!!
Such a privilege and pleasure to be able to be able to work alongside the amazing team from @WHO, @karolinskainst and the Anstey group from @neuraustralia to make these guidelines happen.
Delighted to have been involved in generating these alongside @kaarin_anstey@MiiaKivipelto@LidanZheng@NicoleAEe and of course @WHO and fantastic to see them released and raising awareness of dementia risk reduction
Difficult to disentangle the gender pay gap from #EqualPay in this article. Not happy but it will take time to promote enough women and change the jobs acheived by women (it takes time to train pilots for instance). But equal pay should be achievable now and still isnt.