A strategic plan for being age-friendly, recognition of Aboriginal elders and ongoing community consultations are just some of the programs that have made a Western Australia town an Age Friendly city. The city of Cockburn received the state government’s 2014 Age Friendly Communities Local ...

For the final podcast in the creative ageing series, Aged Care Insite spoke to the creative director of the Arts Health Institute Jean-Paul Bell. Bell is co-founder of the Humour Foundation and authored a book in 2010 called Laughter is ...

The Play Up Convention will feature a workshop and talk from one the founding members of Circus Oz, Sue Broadway. She is the artistic director at Westside Circus in Melbourne and a creative fellow at the State Library of Victoria. ...

In the next instalment of our creative ageing podcast series, Bridget Brandon sheds light on life writing. Brandon is the founder of Storyworks – a company that helps teach people how to write their life story. She will also be ...

Aged Care Insite spoke to Dr Timothy Sharp, adjunct professor in positive psychology at the University of Technology, Sydney and RMIT University. Sharp runs a clinical psychology practice and executive coaching practice and is the founder of The Happiness Institute, ...

Director Roslyn Oades has created a new stage show where young actors tell the stories of people in aged care and senior actors tell audiences what it’s like to be finishing school. Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is a headphone ...

Dr Cathy Greenblat is a photographer, author and sociologist whose interest in capturing a side of dementia rarely cast into light led to an exhibition that has travelled the world. Greenblat has since been involved in a documentary series showcasing ...

Celebrity cook and food manufacturer Maggie Beer will be hosting a lunch at Bond University today. The luncheon is to raise funds for and awareness of the Maggie Beer Foundation, which was set up to advocate for the importance of ...