2023 AGEING WELL STAGE PROGRAM
MC - Liz Behjat
Aged Care & Community Providers Association
Saturday, 12 August
11.15am to 11.40am - Eat Well to Age Well
Ashleigh Jones - Lite n' Easy
The single most important dietary change anyone can make to be healthier is to eat five serves of veggies and two serves of fruit each day. But it can be hard, so at Lite n’ Easy
we make sure you can enjoy the right foods, in the right portions throughout the day and
that you get your daily 5+2 with our complete meal solution.
12.30pm to 12.55pm - Stay Engaged As You Age
Caroline Foulis - Trinity School for Seniors
One of the greatest challenges facing our community is preserving healthy brain function in our ageing population. Find out how Trinity School for Seniors can help you build social connections, whilst being involved in cognitive leisure activites to keep your brain working and your body active.
1.45pm to 2.10pm - Lifespan Dance: Seated Dance Classes
Paige Gordon - Lifespan Dance
Come and learn some Seated Dance sequences and experience the benefits of Seated Dance Classes! Suitable for everyone!
Paige is a passionate advocate for Creative Ageing, and sees dance classes as an essential activity. The classes give give immense benefits – cognitively, physically and socially.
3.00pm to 3.25pm - Death Café - What the?
Samgiita Hope - Death Café
The presentation outlines what a Death Café is and how it can benefit individuals/community by talking about all things death, in the hope to lessen the taboo around this topic.
Sunday, 13 August
11.15am to 11.40am - Putting the fun into funerals - or at least taking some of the angst out!
Verity James - Civil Celebrant / MC
You plan your birthday, wedding, Christmas so why not plan your funeral? VJ will take you through
writing your story/eulogy and how to plan for a funerals that represents YOU! Don’t be frightened – embrace it! After all – no one gets out of life alive! This is a life affirming action which will make that
day a whole lot easier on your family when the time comes.
12.30pm to 12.55pm - LiveUp - Welcome to the Upside of Ageing
Sally Gilchrist - LiveUp
Science tells us that 75% of ageing is attributed to our lifestyle choices (not our genes). LiveUp is a healthy ageing guide that will give you personalised and localised suggestions
to help you keep doing the things you already love, or to try something a bit different. Welcome to the upside of ageing!
1.45pm to 2.10pm - Are you good to go?
Julia Kennington - Palliative Care WA
Advanced Care Planning is planning for your future health, finances and lifestyle decisions for a time in your life when you may not be able to make decisions for yourself. This presentation is an outline of the WA model of Advance Care Planning components. Think, Talk, Write Share. Participants will be encouraged to Think about thier values and preferences, Talk with others regarding thier decisions, Write their values and preferences in appropriate documentation and Share these documents with the appropriate friends, family, alternate decision makers and health professionals.
3.00pm to 3.25pm - Your Hearing Health
Tanya Goromonzi & Neil Soares - Specsavers Audiology
A guide to hearing loss from the hearing experts at Specsavers.
We’ll explore the causes of hearing loss, and how our ears naturally change over time as
we age. We will also reveal the symptoms of hearing loss – so, what you need to look out
for – along with how hearing loss can affect your life. The team will then discuss what you
can do about hearing loss and how our Audiology professionals can help.
