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HARC was pleased to co-host the workshop "Ageing in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges" on 3rd June 2009 at the University of Adelaide.
Speaker: Professor Sara J. Czaja, Director of the Centre for Research and Education on Ageing and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) at the University of Miami.
Professor Czaja has extensive experience in ageing research and a long commitment to developing strategies to improve the quality of life for older adults. Her research interests include: ageing and cognition, ageing and healthcare access and service delivery, ageing and technology, human-computer interaction, training, and functional assessment.
Workshop background and themes:
The elderly population of today and of tomorrow will be healthier, better educated and wealthier than previous generations. Thus many older adults will continue to take an active role in society and engage in work, learning, leisure activities, and desire to live in independent settings. This creates enormous opportunities for ergonomists, designers, researchers and policy makers to develop strategies to maximize the contributions of older people and ensure that they are able to live independently and remain productively engaged.
Coupled with the ageing of the population is the increasing use of technology in most settings. Technology can be used to foster the independence of older adults however, at the same time older adults need to be able to successfully adapt to dynamic changes in technology systems. Designers play a critical role in this process with respect to ensuring that technology systems are designed so that they are useful to and usable by older adult populations.
Please click to request two PowerPoint presentations from the workshop
ASMR Scientific Meeting 2009
HARC is pleased to continue its support of Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) with sponsorship for Adelaide ASMR Scientific Meeting held 2nd June 2009.
The HARC-sponsored Healthy Ageing session comprised six presentations of a very high standard on the following topics:
- The role of certain genes as potential diagnostic and therapeutis targets in osteoarthritis
- The systemic involvement of bone in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis
- The effects of glucose load on blood pressure, heart rate and splanchnic blood flow in healthy elderly
- The effects of alpha-cyclodextrin on blood pressure, gastric emptying and glycaemia in the elderly
- Fructose malabsorption in infants and toddlers with gastrointestinal symptoms
- The relationship between weight status and sleep duration in adolescents on school and non-school days
The prize for the best oral presentation was shared by:
- Dr Diana Gentilcore, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide: Effetcs of alpha-cyclodextrin on blood pressure, gastric emptying and glycaemia in the elderly
- Ms Hilary Jones, Sansom Institute, UniSA: Fructose malabsorption in infants and toddlers with gastrointestinal symptoms
The prize for the best poster presentation was awarded to:
- Ms Nga Lam, Hanson Institute and School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide: Osteoblast-specific VDR over-expression protects against bone loss due to Vitamin D-deficiency in a transgenic mouse model
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