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We are delighted Femada Shamam from South Africa has accepted our scholarship offer to attend the IAHSA/ACSA conference, in Perth, 30 August – 3 September. Ms Shamam graduated as a social worker from the University of Natal in the 1990’s and started her professional career as a social worker in the field of child and family […]

We are delighted Mr M H Dalal, who is credited with founding the first senior citizen commune in India, accepted our scholarship to attend the IAHSA/ACSA conference in Perth at the end of the month. The Oasis in Pune. Maharashtra has been operating for 12 years, and Mr Dalal’s consultancy now offers holistic services for those wanting to establish senior

Mr. Amit Vaidya, Director at UCC Care Pvt. Ltd. will be travelling from India to Perth on a CommonAge scholarship to join other commonwealth delegates at the IAHSA/ACSA conference, 30 August – 3 September. Although he is a trained architect, Mr Vaidya has been leading his company’s foray in senior living since 2009, and he has developed and

ACC is proud to announce a new partnership relationship with CommonAge to promote and disseminate learning, experience and best practice in aged care services in Commonwealth countries. This partnership builds on ACC’s existing relationships with key members of CommonAge and the organisation’s approach to collaboration for innovation and better practice initiatives. ACC’s Group Chief Executive

We are delighted that Paul Ayernor from Ghana has accepted the offer of our scholarship to attend the IAHSA/ACSA conference, 30 August – 3 September in Perth. Ayernor is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and is currently working on a DPhil thesis entitled: ‘Social Embeddedness, Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults in

Decision Assist – Palliative Care support for Aged Care For aged care staff, making decisions that provide the best possible palliative care for older people has become increasingly complex.  And that’s a good thing.  People now live longer and, increasingly, are able to live out their lives in their own homes, whether in the community

The founder and Chief Executive of Cameroon’s leading organisation in care of older people, CDVTA (Community Development volunteers for Technical Assistance),  has accepted the offer of our scholarship to attend the IAHSA/ACSA conference, 30 August – 3 September. Francis Njuakom Nchii is also the coordinator of Nouvelle Planete projects in Cameroon and a member of care

The Program Planning Committee invites authors to submit abstracts for oral, poster, symposium and workshop presentations for the IFA 13th Global Conference on Ageing, Disasters in an Ageing World:Readiness, Resilience and Recovery. Click here for more information

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We were delighted when Dr Alfred Yawson from Ghana accepted the offer of our scholarship to join us in Perth at the IAHSA/ACSA conference, 30 August – 3 September. Dr Alfred is a university lecturer at the Medical School and School of Public Health, University of Ghana and the consultant public health physician at Korle-Bu teaching