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Conference speakers head to Canberra
Key international speakers at this month's Art of Good Health and Wellbeing Conference in Port Macquarie will travel to Canberra to make presentations at two public seminars.
Both seminars focus on healthy ageing through creative activities. On 17 November, National Rural Health Alliance's From creative ageing to end-of-life in rural and remote Australia, will explore ageing issues and the particular problems of distance.
International speakers will provide evidence about the contributions that can be made by local and outreach arts programs for creative ageing and for carers. They include: Susan Perlstein, National Center for Creative Ageing, Washington, DC; Mike White, Senior Fellow in Arts in Health, Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Durham, UK and Alison Clough, Director, Pioneer Projects and Looking Well Centre, Bentham, UK.
They will be joined by Jenny May, Chairperson, NRHA; Joan Hughes, CEO, Carers Australia; Donna Daniell, CEO, Palliative Care Australia; Rosemary Young, CEO, Frontier Services and Margret Meagher, Director of Arts and Health Australia.
The Department of Health and Ageing will hold a Creative Ageing Seminar on 16 November. Susan Perlstein will present US policy issues, programs and results from the breakthrough research she conducted with Dr Gene Cohen. Carrie McGee, Educator, Community and Access Programs, Museum of Modern Art, New York will address the impact of high calibre art programming on physical, intellectual and emotional wellbeing. Mike White will consider the challenges of evaluating Arts Development in Community Health and lessons learnt from case studies.
Seminar details:
Creative Ageing Seminar - Department of Health and Ageing
Monday 16 November 2009 10.30am – 12.30pm
Theatrette, Ground Floor Scarborough House
Atlantic Street
Woden Town Centre, ACT
From creative ageing to end-of-life in rural and remote Australia - National Rural Health Alliance
Tuesday 17 November 2009 9am – 12.30pm
CSIRO Discovery Centre
North Science Road, ANU
Further information from NRHA
Both seminars are free