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We are grateful to have the support of the following partners.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner SAGE Futures Lab

The ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab

The ECU Social Ageing (SAGE) Futures Lab delivers a ‘social care’ approach to ageing across the life-course. Our research emphasises the role and value of the relationships in an individual’s social support network (formal and informal), including with the environment (physical and structural), as well as the use of technologies to mediate local, virtual and distant support networks. Our vision for the SAGE Lab is inspired by the notion of ageing futures, which highlights the social revolution needed to re-imagine our relationship to ageing. As populations around the world are living longer, we need to change the way we think about and prepare for older age, including by combatting ageism, the biggest barrier to ageing well. In the Australian context, addressing ageing futures is also about understanding our increasingly diverse older population, with 1 in 3 people born overseas; a hugely diverse group with diverse needs, cross-cut by intersecting factors including gender, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, geography, and so on.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner AFCAS

Association for Culturally Appropriate Services (AfCAS)

Association for Culturally Appropriate Services (AfCAS) promotes quality, accountability, and access to culturally appropriate services for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) seniors, regardless of their geographic location. AfCAS’s work is supported and informed through building strong partnerships and networks across key agencies delivering culturally appropriate services, cultural audits and charters, and community engagement and advisory services. Main activities of the Association include services, training, mentoring. AfCAS invites membership and individuals from CALD community organisations, service providers and individuals to ensure services are culturally appropriate and accessible for CALD clients.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner MyVista

My Vista

MYVISTA is a not-for-profit community-based organisation with strong links to the local community and it ethnic based connections. MYVISTA provides aged care services through home care, retirement living and residential aged care and takes pride in its rich cultural diversity of customers, workforce and community. In 2022 MYVISTA celebrated 30 years of care service operations and operates from two sites in Balcatta ad Mirrabooka. We have proudly supported the annual Aged Care forums to connect research and practice and ensure we continue to improve the lives of seniors and educate the aged care workforce and community.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner ECU's Centre for Research in Aged Care

ECU's Centre for Research in Aged Care

The vision for the Centre for Research in Aged Care is to bring positive change to the quality of living and dying for older people receiving aged or end-of-life care. We aim to inform and positively impact practice with innovations to improve the quality of aged and end-of-life care at home, in residential care, and in hospital. Our success relies on our collaborative approach to developing and testing innovations with people providing or receiving care. Our Aged Care research responds directly to the contemporary global ageing challenge, and the Centre is aligned with international, national, and local research priorities.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner NARI

National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)

The National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) makes a measurable difference to the lives of older people and those who care for them by improving their quality of life and health. We are a national, independent medical research institute, which is highly respected across the aged care industry and research sector nationally and internationally. NARI brings together industry leaders, innovators, academic experts, and world-class educators who combine their expertise to influence and shape the agenda in ageing research and aged care. With a strong focus on translational research, we have made significant improvements to the lives of older Australians through our research in seven key areas: Falls and balance; Pain; Dementia; Physical activity; Healthy ageing; Psychosocial and mental health; Health systems evaluation. We are the first academic centre in Australia focused on research and ageing in Australia as well as an independent non- profit medical research institute and company limited by guarantee – unique in the Australian ageing research sector.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner InCasa

InCasa

InCasa Aged Care and Community Services is a Perth-based, locally owned approved provider of in-home care for seniors who require support to remain living in their home independently. We believe that being ‘at home’ will support seniors to live their lives in their own ways. We can assist seniors to carry out everyday tasks around the home which they may begin to find challenging, as well as support them to participate in family and community life. We pride ourselves on providing a truly personal service and our compassionate, multilingual and multiskilled staff are on hand to cater to seniors’ specific needs.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner Consultivation

Consultivation

Consultivation is an ethics led business consultancy organisation. They focus on helping people, organisations, and communities to flourish. They work collaboratively with partners and clients to build capacity, achieve goals, and alleviate stress. Calling upon a diverse range of skills and knowledge to deliver innovative business strategies and solutions, they provide tailored consultancy services, workshops, and resources. They work with organisations of all sizes and their people from owners, boards, and executives to staff, volunteers, clients, and community stakeholders to achieve positive change. Consultivation focuses on: (i) assisting with quality and compliance and in doing so upskill staff, improve client services and help your organisation surpass compliance; (ii) developing and deliver training, mentoring and team building activities to create better client outcomes; (iii) co-designing initiatives to help build connected, inclusive, and safe communities; and (iv) facilitate forums which improve awareness, understanding and culturally safe practices.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner Centre for Precision Health

The Centre for Precision Health

The Centre for Precision Health is one of ECU’s Strategic Research Centres. The Centre focuses on an individual's unique biology and environment, and their interaction, to develop precision health solutions for the prediction of disease risk, rates of disease progression, response to treatment, and to inform tailored interventions. The Centre consists of a multidisciplinary group of researchers focusing on applying a precision health model across key health priorities and leading causes of disease burden: Cancer, Neurological conditions, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s Disease, and Chronic and metabolic conditions. The researchers have knowledge and expertise across Genomics, Glycomics, and Proteomics, which are applied to these health conditions to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

SAGE Annual Research Forum - Partner Chung Wah Community Care

Chung Wah Community Care

Chung Wah has been serving the Western Australian community since 1909, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals from diverse backgrounds. With close to 40 years of professional care experience, Chung Wah Community Care has a proven track record of helping seniors and people with disabilities improve their well-being and integrate more fully into the community. In 2023, we're promoting our theme, "Embrace, Elevate & Flourish," and striving to build a better community for all.

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