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One of the key recommendations of the 2018 Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was that Australia needed to do more to keep people in their homes.

That shift has happened and we are now a country that care mostly for our elders in their own homes rather than in residential care facilities.

While residential aged care still has its place, research teams at Flinders University – including the Ageing Alliance – have been dedicating more time and attention to understanding what it truly takes to support older individuals to live independently at home, minimise risks, and age well.

Hear from award-winning ageing researcher Professor Maria Inacio, and a panel of Ageing Alliance members about Flinders latest research on new models of care that bring together healthcare professionals and services from various sectors to work as a team and improve care in the home for older Australians.

Thursday 23 July, 5:30pm – 7:00pm

5:30pm – 6pm Networking and light refreshments
6:00pm – 7:00pm Keynote address followed by panel discussion and audience Q&A

Level 14, Flinders City Campus
North Tce, Adelaide

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Professor Maria Inacio
Academic Director, Flinders Ageing Alliance
Director, Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre

Prof Inacio is an epidemiologist with expertise in population health surveillance, registry science, and health and aged care services research. She is the Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Epidemiology at Flinders University, and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow.

Since 2017 Prof Inacio has developed the ROSA research program and team, which is dedicated to the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of ageing and aged care services provided to older Australians. Prof Inacio and the ROSA team have delivered several reports to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and Department of Health, Disability and Ageing that have informed federal level recommendations and new national program design regarding quality and safety monitoring for the aged care sector.

PANEL

David Moran
CEO, Southern Cross Care

David has more than three decades of executive management experience in retirement living and aged care. Having joined Southern Cross Care as an Executive in 2011 he became Deputy CEO the following year, before moving into the CEO role in 2017. David’s experience includes development, acquisition, marketing, management and consulting with Adelaide Bank, retirement village operator Primelife (now Keyton) and not-for-profit aged care provider ACH Group. He has previously been on the Board of Multicultural Aged Care, has participated extensively with industry representative bodies such as the Retirement Living Council (Honorary life member), Catholic Health Australia, the former Aged and Community Services and is a current member of the Flinders Ageing Research Alliance Advisory Council. David holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Property Resource Management (Valuation), is an Associate of the Australian Property Institute and a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is passionate about the Better for life vision of Southern Cross Care for older people, inspired by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal No.3 promoting healthy lives and wellbeing at all ages.

Bryan Morden
Consumer Representative, Flinders Ageing Alliance

Bryan Morden is a Consumer and Community Representative on the Advisory Council for the Flinders Ageing Alliance. The Advisory Council is responsible for ensuring the alignment of the Flinders Ageing Alliance activities with its strategic goals, particularly in the areas of research, advocacy and capacity building for aged care, ageing and palliative care. The Advisory Council consists of Alliance member representatives, stakeholders, strategic experts and consumer/community members.

MC – Jeremy Pudney
Director, Media and Communications, Flinders University