[Commpsych] Fw: Ageing in Australia: The big issues | Seminar Series on Ageing 2018

Fri Feb 16 15:09:27 AWST 2018

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Subject: Ageing in Australia: The big issues | Seminar Series on Ageing 2018

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The Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults
2018 Seminar Series on Ageing presents:

 Ageing in Australia: The big issues

A seminar by Hon Dr Kay Patterson, AO

Friday 2 March 2018, 4:40–6:00pm
BA302

All Welcome

This talk will cover issues being addressed by the Commissioner, including employment of older workers, elder abuse, the rising number of older women at risk of homelessness and the role academics and workers in the field can play in addressing the issues affecting older Australians.

The Hon Dr Kay Patterson AO was appointed as the Age Discrimination Commissioner on 29th July, 2016 Kay comes to this role with strong involvement in issues affecting older people. Leaving school at 15, and then managing a small business, she returned to school and gained a BA (Hons) at the University of Sydney and a PhD in Psychology and a Dip Ed at Monash University. She taught allied health science students for 11 years. She studied gerontology at the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University. Using the knowledge gained during those visits she co-developed the first Victorian post-graduate diploma in gerontology and introduced gerontology into the undergraduate behavioural science courses.

Following her election to the Senate in 1987 she served on a number of Senate committees and held various shadow portfolios. In 1988 she was appointed as a Parliamentary Secretary and in 2001 was appointed to Cabinet and served in the Health and Social Security portfolios. She retired from Cabinet in 2006 and from the Senate in 2008. During her time in the Senate she pursued issues affecting older Australians and fought tirelessly for the removal of the compulsory retirement age of 65 from the Australian Public Service and statutory authorities.

Initially she will champion the rights of older workers, focus on the blight of elder abuse and encourage innovative solutions to homelessness and risk of homelessness amongst older Australians.

Kay has served on a number of not-for-profit Boards and voluntary positions. She is a Director of the Brockhoff Foundation (2008-); Professorial Fellow Monash University, in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (2008-); she was a Director and Vice-President of Interplast Australia NZ (2007-2016); a member of the Board of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (2014-2016); Chaired the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Council on Homelessness (2011-2013); was involved for over 25 years in the Victorian Girl Guides as a leader, Council and Executive Member; and was a member of the Monash University Council (1978-1998). She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2016 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.

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When:

Friday 2 March 2018
4:40pm–6:00pm

Where:

Room BA302
BA Building
Swinburne University of Technology
Hawthorn

RSVP:

Please go here <http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2018/02/ageing-in-australia-the-big-issues--seminar-series-on-ageing.php> to register

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For more information please contact Sunil Bhar at sbhar at swin.edu.au<mailto:sbhar at swin.edu.au> . We look forward to seeing you there.

Please find the schedule for the Module 1 of the 2018 Seminar Series on Ageing attached to this email.

A/Prof Sunil Bhar

Director of the Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults

Chair of Psychological Sciences

Swinburne University of Technology

Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/psychology/pc/older-adults/index.html>

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