Happy Friday! We have a bonus episode for you this week as we welcome back friends of the show, Daniella Greenwood and Maurie Voisey-Barlin for an informal chat about some of issues raised in Tuesday's episode on Cultural Diversity in Ageing. As always if you enjoy the show, please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. The Aged Care Enrichment Podcast...
Oct 28, 2021•18 min
Today, we have an interesting conversation about an often overlooked subject in aged care - cultural diversity. We're delighted to be joined by two guests from the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing, Lisa Tribuzio and Nikki Rittinghausen. A lot of this conversation focuses on how interpreting, translating and language appropriate resources are essential for linguistically diverse older adults, both in home care and residential care. With a third of older adults in Australia coming from non-...
Oct 25, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Today, we have an interesting episode that focuses on products and services for older adults, and how they get made. Guiding us through the wild ride of entrepreneurship and product development is Jon Warner. Jon has been working in the ageing space for over 25 years, and this most recent phase of his career has focused on helping new companies develop and launch their products for the over 65 market. Among many board engagements throughout the industry, Jon leads Silver Moonshots, a start-up ac...
Oct 18, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Today, we're talking about the two-way benefits of developing sustainable connections and bonds between older adults and children, and to help us explore this topic in detail we are joined by Greg Cronan from Intergenerational Learning Australia. We're sure most of you would have watched the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) show 'Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds'? Greg has worked with many of the same guests and team that featured on the show and he shares with us a lot of the transfor...
Oct 11, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Today, we're incredibly excited to be joined on the podcast by Paola Barbarino, the CEO of Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). ADI are the global leaders of the Alzheimer's and Dementia awareness movement, representing over 100 national associations all the way to the highest stages of international co-operation - The United Nations and World Health Organisation. Paola and her team are tireless in their work supporting organisations like Dementia Australia, Alzheimer's UK and Alzheimer's As...
Oct 04, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Today, we’re talking to somebody from a country and region we haven’t heard a lot about. Our guest is Flora Proverbio from Buenos Aires Argentina who does quite a few different things. She helps older adults find employment, helps companies market their products to people over 50, and runs a community for women over 50 called Plateadas. In the interview we get into some of the challenges that Flora faced when looking for work in her late 40s, the work she does with her silver economy consultancy...
Sep 27, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Today, we’ve got a two part episode focusing on a topic we haven’t talked about at all on the podcast, Parkinson’s disease. To help us explore the experience of people living with Parkinson’s, we have the CEO of the Shake it Up Foundation, Clyde Campbell, and in the second half of the show, immersive storyteller and friend of pod, Wesley Della Volla. Clyde shares the story of how his diagnosis propelled him into the field of Parkinson’s research, and how The Shake it Up Foundation is pairing Aus...
Sep 20, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Today, we welcome two guests from the institute of physical activity and nutrition at Deakin University, Professors David Scott and Judi Porter. Both David and Judi’s work focuses on older adults, with David looking at physical exercise and Judi at nutrition. And today we’re talking about the cross section of these two fields in aged care, with an exploration of sarcopenia and malnutrition. As you’ll hear in this episode sarcopenia and malnutrition go hand in hand, particularly in residential ag...
Sep 13, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Today we’re featuring a panel of industry leaders from peak bodies, trade associations and global ecosystems to talk about fostering cooperation and change. This wide ranging and free flowing conversation featured Stephen Johnston from Aging 2.0, Katie Sloan Smith from Leading Age and the Global Aging Network, George Margelis from the Aged Care Industry Informational Technology Council, and Mary Patetsos from the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia and ACH Group. They covered e...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 34
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Sep 02, 2021•11 min
Today, we’re talking about hearing loss and deafness, with the help of Liz Baldwin. Liz is a clinical audiologist and manager at Expression Australia, a not for profit created for the deaf community by the deaf community. A lot of her work is in helping older adults through their hearing loss journey, as well as providing tools and support to her clients and their families to adapt to hearing loss. If you’re a care worker or working in the aged care industry, then this is a great episode for und...
Aug 30, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Today, we’re featuring another interesting international guest. We’ll be chatting to Jayne Connery from the UK about Safety Monitoring in residential aged care. Jayne founded the organisation Care Campaign For The Vulnerable or CCFTV, to advocate for communal area video monitoring in care facilities. Through her work she puts forward a very compelling argument that monitoring is actually in the interests of not only the residents, but also care workers and the providers themselves, which you’ll ...
Aug 23, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Today we’re taking an in-depth look at food, nutrition and dining in residential aged care with the help of Ngaire Hobbins. Ngaire is a dietician, author and consultant whose work focuses on addressing some of the poor and unhelpful dietary information for older adults. As it turns out older adults may need to follow the exact opposite instructions to what you’d expect, to keep them safe from injury and illness and Ngaire really clarifies this misunderstanding in the episode. She also talks abou...
Aug 16, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Today we are thrilled to welcome Bradley Schurman onto the show - an author, consultant and self described "Demographic Futurist". It's the third instalment in our recent focus on ageing, after fantastic episodes with Ashton Applewhite on ageism and Andrea B. Maier on healthy ageing, now we're looking at the future of ageing. Bradley is passionate about how changing demographics are having a huge impact on the way we live, work and think and why we're entering into some completely unprecedented ...
Aug 09, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 30
#ThanksforCaring - we'd like to take a moment to recognise each and every team member involved in caring for the 1.3 million older Australians receiving home care or residential care services. A special and heartfelt thank you from the Aged Care Enrichment Podcast to our nurses and care workers, allied health professionals, hospitality teams, drivers, cleaners, volunteers, lifestyle officers, administration staff and many, many others.
Aug 05, 2021•3 min
This week we’re taking a look at a word you might have heard before but are not entirely sure of the meaning - Geroscience. We’ve got Dr. Andrea Maier from the Universities of Melbourne, Singapore and the Free University in Amsterdam to help explain what geroscience is all about. Andrea is a Professor, Geriatrician, author and speaker who’s research focuses on unravelling the mechanics of ageing and age related diseases. In this episode she explains really clearly why age is such a factor in the...
Aug 02, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Joining us on this week's episode is American author, speaker and anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite. Ashton began investigating ageism in her mid 50s and what she discovered led her to write her book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, as well as creating a number of other resources to combat ageism, which you’ll hear about in the episode. We really enjoyed this interview, Ashton brings a lot of energy and attitude, and we learnt a lot about how despite our best efforts, we're st...
Jul 26, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Today's episode is all about Palliative Care, and we’re very lucky to be joined by Leeroy William to help us unpack this complex area. Leeroy is the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine. He’s also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Monash and Clinical Director of supportive and Palliative Care at Eastern Health in Melbourne. He came on the show to help us understand the scope of palliative care, and how it encompasses much more than just care...
Jul 19, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Today, we're talking to Emi Kiyota, an ageing design expert and self described Environmental Gerontologist. She’s also the founder of Ibasho, a not-for-profit organisation that helps older adults create sustainable and socially integrated communities that places elders and their value at the heart of the organisation. She’s helped build a few of these, including locations in Nepal, the Philippines and Northern Japan which we talk about in this episode. Emi’s work is all about empowering older ad...
Jul 12, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Today, we're super excited to share that we'll be releasing our first episode of a new monthly panel show of the podcast! After feedback from you guys - our listeners, we decided to break up our in-depth one-on-one interviews and present an open discussion on a specific topic - starting with Activities and Recreation in aged care. We’ve assembled an international panel of experts and practitioners to share their experiences and insights in this vast field and how we can overcome some common chal...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 25
We're super excited to share that next Tuesday we'll be releasing our first episode of a new monthly panel show of the Aged Care Enrichment Podcast! After feedback from you guys - our listeners, we decided to break up our in-depth one-on-one interviews and present an open form discussion on a topic that many of us will be familiar with - starting with Activities and Recreation in aged care. The Aged Care Enrichment Podcast is brought to you by SilVR Adventures ⬇️ 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻, 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲...
Jul 02, 2021•1 min
Today, we're delighted to welcome Kate Swaffer on to the Aged Care Enrichment Podcast. Kate is one of Australia’s most prominent advocates for the rights of people living with dementia. She herself was diagnosed with early onset dementia 13 years ago and is particularly passionate about ensuring that the post diagnostic process for people living with dementia improves dramatically. She was the first person living with dementia to be invited to give a keynote speech to the World Health Organisati...
Jun 28, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Today, we're talking to Angela Burton. Angela is the creator of the Feet to the Fire Writers Workshops, a writing program that encourages older adults to share and relive their stories and memories through the process of writing. She’s also the host of the podcast, the Feet to the Fire Writer’s Workshops Outloud where she interviews older adults from her writing programs and invites them to share some of their writing - and we’ll be hearing a snippet from that program too. In this conversation w...
Jun 21, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Today, we’re talking to Professor Laurie Buys. Laurie is a Professor of Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland, and is the former National President of the Australian Association of Gerontology. Her most recent research and work has focussed on longevity and how we can deliver better social and economic outcomes for everyone by focusing our attention on products, services and policies for people over 65. It's a really interesting conversation, as Laurie is extremely pass...
Jun 14, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Today we have a two part episode with two great guests. With the help of Darren Evans from AfterCloud and Melissa Reader from The Violet Initiative, we’ll be focusing on end of life care and how we can transform the final stage of life into a more positive and meaningful experience for everyone. First up is Darren Evans, who’s talking about his company AfterCloud, which has created a close group digital sharing platform for people at the end of their lives and beyond. Darren has a lot to say abo...
Jun 07, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Today, we're talking to Simon Heaysman, one half of the founding team from Hayylo, a young technology company that seeks to empower care recipients and their support network by simplifying communication between all parties of the care process. Simon is passionate about delivering an engaging and intuitive end user experience. In this conversation we talked about the challenges new companies face in the aged care sector, how to ease change in a change resistant industry, and building technology w...
May 31, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Today we’re talking to Susan Ryan. Susan is the Senior Director of an American not-for-profit called The Green House Project, which proposes an alternative model to traditional care facilities - one that looks and feels like a real home. We talk to Susan about the ideas and principles that underpin this model, and what it looks like in a practical sense to operate care facilities that only accommodate a handful of people. It's a really interesting conversation, to reimagine the way the care coul...
May 24, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Today, we are very excited to be talking to Angela Rippon. Angela is a longstanding and highly awarded British Television presenter who has been working in TV for over 50 years - she was the first female presenter on the BBC, the first host of Top Gear in the 1970s and the host of many other series. She’s also a dementia ambassador. After her mum was diagnosed with vascular dementia in the early 2000s, Angela started speaking about the experience and raising awareness for the condition. This con...
May 17, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Today we have a special look at a pressing issue within aged care, Loneliness. To help us unpack the issue we’re joined by Professors Johanna Badcock and John Pollaers both representing Ending Loneliness Together. In this conversation we look at just how big a problem loneliness is, how it effects not just care recipients but also care workers, and some potential technologies that could reduce the impacts of loneliness. This episode was a really fascinating and great to hear both a clinical and ...
May 10, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Today, we are joined by the executive director of New Zealand’s Retirement Villages Association, John Collyns. RVA represents the interests of owners, developers and operators of retirement villages throughout New Zealand. In this position John represents the association and it’s members to policy makers and the media, so he’s the perfect person to explain why retirement villages in New Zealand keep going from strength to strength. We also talk about the continuum of care in this episode, as wel...
May 03, 2021•35 min•Season 2Ep. 16
