Assisted Living
Caregivers' Needs
Healthy ageing for caregivers: What are their needs?, supporting caregivers for ensuring successful discharge and continuation of care at home, caregiver inner strength and mutual support.
Centenarians and Longevity
Communities Initiatives
Preparing for a healthy ageing population, affordable housing, beyond 2012: elder ready communities, implementation of community programmes for older people.
Disability and Ageing
Economics of Ageing
Environment and Accessibility
Pollution: air, water, noise, nutrition, planning for integrated transportation to promote mobility, creating environments for safe walking, supportive environments driving by older adults, accessibility, usability and safety in urban environments, elderly gym in public parks, designing roadways for ageing drivers and pedestrians, walkable neighbourhoods for seniors and road traffic injuries.
Family and Cultural Issues
Expectations, intergenerational obligations and constraints, restoring the environment of respect for older people, the challenge of preserving heritage in a modern society.
Health and Legislative Policies
Facilitating housing and land use policy changes to support healthy environment, promoting consumer and policymaker awareness of healthy ageing, achieving policy change on the local level, ageing: the policy challenge for government - the societal challenge for us all, turning theory into practice, challenges for ageing individuals, families, communities and societies that require informed and evidence-based policy, security and insecurity of living at home alone, promoting environmental and policy change to support and promote mobility.
Inequalities in Health
The right to healthy ageing and active ageing, racism, sexism and now ageism - attitudes and beliefs about human life extension, involving the aged in research into ageing, poverty is an important socio-economic health determinant, distilling scientific research on ageing into simple, practical guidelines for clinical practice.
Isolation and Neglect
Ageing maybe hastened by emotional abuse, strained family relations are risk factors for the abuse of older people or for violence, older women living alone and their perceptions of health-supporting neighbourhoods.
Legal Issues and Ageing
Power of attorney, advance medical directive, asset management and care giving.
Leisure and Recreation
Lifelong Learning
Lifestyle Homes and Retirement Villages
Successful ageing in health care institutions, management of lifestyle issues in aged care facilities, predictive variables for mortality following involuntary institutional relocation, senior residents of 'pay & stay' homes, an examination of health & physical activity, active ageing of the elderly in residential long-term care institutions, residents' nutritional status in all nursing homes and long-term care hospitals.
Multi-Discipline Collaboration
Role of manager, PT, OT, social worker, supporting functional activity of older people.
Population Ageing Around the Globe
Disability and longevity, the emerging issues of population ageing and policy interventions, ageing women, the development of ageing policy, dementia care, lifestyle of the elderly in rural and urban areas.
Redefining Retirement
Role Models in Ageing
