Thursday Three - 8 08 2024

  • AAG Qld Division – A leadership update: A Warm Welcome to Co-Chair Dr Asmita Manchha
  • AAG Blog – Community Hubs: an immeasurable social investment of staying connected in community
  • Australasian Journal on Ageing Volume 43 (Issue 2)

AAG Qld Division & a leadership update: A Warm Welcome to Co-Chair Dr Asmita Manchha

As mentioned in the last Thursday Three, we celebrated some fantastic changes to the Qld Division, thanking outgoing chair Lachie Green and welcoming Dr Theresa Scott as the new Queensland Division Chair.

However, the good news doesn’t stop there, since the announcement of a new chair, Dr Asmita Manchha, who has been serving diligently as the Queensland Division Secretary, has graciously stepped up to become the Division Co-Chair alongside Theresa. We can’t wait to see the amazing things they will accomplish together!

We also once again want to take this opportunity to acknowledge all our past Division chairs for their valued contributions to AAG. Your efforts and dedication have been instrumental in our success.

You can learn more about our wonderful AAG Divisions and committee members here. 

AAG Blog & Community Hubs: an immeasurable social investment of staying connected in community

We’re thrilled to share a captivating array of topics through the AAG 500 blog.

This month, we spotlight Dr Chiara Naseri, a 2022 AAG Research Trust Hal Kendig Development grant recipient. Her blog focuses on Community Hubs, a significant social investment for community connectivity, particularly for older people.

These hubs foster member reciprocity and extend healthy ageing activities based on their needs. A notable example is the Staying in Place program, which links older members with local contractors for home support services, thereby sustaining urban and rural community populations.

You can read more of Dr Naseri’s blog that highlights the invaluable social investment of community hubs in promoting healthy ageing and community sustainability.

Australasian Journal on Ageing Volume 43 (Issue 2)

The latest issue of the AJA was recently published and as always AJA’s contents continues to reflect the comprehensive range of research being conducted across gerontology and geriatric medicine.

This edition includes editorials by Young, Christoffersen and Rockwood on partnering with consumers in frailty research and by Montayre on social frailty as a risk factor for physical frailty and other adverse health outcomes. Other articles look at health professionals’ frailty knowledge and barriers to frailty management, as well as frailty prevalence among patients with acute coronary syndromes and frailty evidence-practice gaps in hospitals.

These are part of a new virtual issue: ‘Frailty research: Advancing evidence and practice’. This virtual issue compiles frailty articles published in the Journal and addresses contemporary topics ranging from assessment tools, prevalence and risk factors, to interventions and education. 

The issue also features the second part on ‘Ageing in Place in China’, introduced by Professor Wong from the Macao Polytechnic University, and comprising articles examining care preferences and patterns of family and community care, urbanisation’s impact of older people, and how smart cities can supporting ageing. 

AAG members are invited to consider submitting for the special feature on ‘Creativity, the Arts and Ageing’, supported by Helen English and Tricia King and the AAG Special Interest Group on Creativity, Art and Design. We encourage articles that focus on a broad range of arts, including but not limited to visual arts, dance, music, theatre, and decorative arts and crafts. Articles should be submitted by 31 October 2024 for consideration for inclusion in the Special Feature. See here for the call for papers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17416612

The table of contents for the current issue can be accessed (subject to membership) at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17416612/current and the frailty virtual issue at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17416612/homepage/VirtualIssuesPage.html