Report from Global Ageing Conference
AAG represents Australia's gerontology community internationally. Last week, we told you that Dr Meg Polacsek had attended the 2023 NZAG Conference in Auckland on behalf of AAG (self-funded). On the opposite side of the world, AAG's Policy and Research Manager, Dr Amber Mills, represented AAG at the 2023 Global Ageing Conference in Glasgow (she also self-funded her attendance!).
The Global Ageing Conference is a biannual event organised by the Global Ageing Network, an international network of ageing service providers. This year's conference was a global symposium for sustainable care and support and was co-hosted by Scottish Care and the National Care Forum, UK. The event brought together keynote speakers from around the world, a range of fascinating presentations and posters, and opportunities to network.
A pre-conference summit on workforce issues bought together international perspectives on the growing demand for care workers, challenges in recruiting and retaining those staff and best practice examples of interventions and ways to change the narrative. Amber presented two research posters at the conference Innovation Hub: one on the importance of management skills in delivering quality aged care, and another on the policy gap in navigation and support services required by some older people in accessing the Australian aged care system.