Healthy Ageing Initiative

This presentation explores how museum wellbeing programs such as QAGOMA’s Art and Dementia program offer opportunities to fill the gap for life-long learners, through meaningful and stimulating engagement, and positive social interaction.

Chronic stress is a pervasive problem, affecting people across the lifespan, but especially adults and the elderly. Moreover, the upheavals that occurred as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic have only exacerbated the problem.

This webinar covers the experience of conducting a Deliberative Democracy and the recommendations generated from this research.

This seminar explores four projects aimed at including people living with dementia in the co-design of research and technology.

The Healthy Ageing Research Team (HART) has been immersed in research across the Torres Strait Islands and far north Queensland for over two decades. The team of clinicians, academics and researchers aspire to work with Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities to enhance the health and wellbeing of older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through research.