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2007 MonRAS Evening Forum - Archive
Details of upcoming MonRAS Evening Forums are here.
Evening Forum No. 3: Wednesday 15th August 2007
Outliving the evidence: A forum on evidence based treatment and care of the very old
Program
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Presenter |
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Title |
| 4:00pm |
David Harrison |
MonRAS Director |
Forum opening |
| 4.10pm |
Prof Daniel O’Connor |
Aged Mental Health Research Group |
Difficult behaviours in dementia: do alternative treatments work? |
| 4.35pm |
Chris Puckey |
Rural and Regional Health and aged Care Services, DHS |
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| 4.50pm |
A/Prof Peteris Darzins |
Monash Ageing Research Centre |
“… but my patients have outlived the evidence.” |
| 5.05pm |
Joan Yalden |
Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science |
Very old people die too! Evidenced based care in residential aged care. |
| 5.20pm |
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Open discussion forum
followed by drinks, nibbles and networking |
Report
The third MonRAS Evening Forum on Ageing Research was held on Wednesday 15th August at the Monash University Staff Club.
The topic for discussion was the evidence based treatment and care of the very old led by Professor Daniel O’Connor, Head of the Aged Mental Health Research Unit at the Kingston Centre, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. During his keynote presentation, Professor O’Connor described the interesting and largely positive findings he uncovered when researching the use of “alternative treatments” such as aromatherapy, music therapy and various psychosocial treatments for difficult behaviours in dementia patients.
Presentations from Chris Puckey (Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services, DHS) on the development of community and residential aged care; Associate Professor Peteris Darzins (Monash Ageing Research Centre) discussing the lack of evidence for the therapeutic medicinal treatment of the very old; and Joan Yalden (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) on palliative care of the very old, further highlighted the issues related to the evidenced based care of the aged and very old.
Evening Forum No. 2: Wednesday 6th June 2007
Too Old to Work, Too Young to Die: A forum on the Ageing Workforce
Program
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Presenter |
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Title |
| 4:00pm |
David Harrison |
MonRAS Director |
Forum opening |
| 4.05pm |
Prof Carla Lipsig-Mumme |
Faculty of Arts |
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| 4.30pm |
Anne Byrne |
CEO, UniSuper |
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| 4.45pm |
A/Prof Lesley Farrell |
Faculty of Education |
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| 5.00pm |
Andrew Rimington |
Senior Policy Advisor, VECCI |
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| 5.15pm |
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Open discussion forum
followed by drinks, nibbles and networking |
Report
The second MonRAS Evening Forum on Ageing Research was held on Wednesday 6th June at the Monash University Staff Club. The topic for discussion was the ageing workforce led by Professor Carla Lipsig-Mumme from the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts who described the paradoxes and dilemmas for older workers and labour market participation in Australia in her keynote presentation. Presentations from Associate Professor Lesley Farrell (Faculty of Education), Paul Murphy (UniSuper) and Andrew Rimington (VECCI) canvassed a wide range of issues including education and training for older workers, the effects of the ageing population on superannuation and the challenges and opportunities for employers and business.
Inaugural Evening Forum: Wednesday 28th March 2007
Accessing Global Ageing Research Opportunities
Program
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Presenter |
Title |
| 4:00pm |
David Harrison |
Forum opening |
| 4.10pm |
Professor Colette Browning |
Ageing Research Collaboration in China |
| 4.35pm |
Professor Russell Smyth |
A Business and Economics Perspective on Aging Research in China |
| 4.50pm |
Professor Yi-Bing Cheng |
Opportunities for Ageing Studies in China |
| 5.00pm |
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Open discussion forum |
| 5.30pm |
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Drinks and nibbles |
Report
The speakers focused on the diversity of opportunity for Monash researchers to work cooperatively with their colleagues in China, which is facing similar ageing issues with its own version of the Baby-Boomer generation and rural to metropolitan population shift resulting in isolated rural ageing populations.
Speakers Professors Colette Browning, Russell Smyth and Yi-Bing Cheng aptly illustrated the range of social, economic, medical and scientific research already being undertaken by Monash in association with universities across China. The need for persistence and development of working relations with academic colleagues and representatives from government were strongly emphasised, as well as the need to ensure the early demonstration of practical and useful research outcomes.
A podcast of the presentations at this Forum are available here.
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