Our Vision
Hunter Ageing Alliance (HAA) is a citizen-formed group that is asking Government, businesses and organisations to join them to better focus on the needs of older people.
Age-friendly communities mean that planning takes the needs of older people into account, recognising that older people have the same desire to remain physically, intellectually, and socially active as younger people. This requires environmental adaptation, appropriate housing at all levels of affordability, easy access to information about services and facilities for older people, protection from elder abuse, health care services appropriate to the needs of older people and support for socially isolated people to ensure their physical and psychological well-being.
Our Strategic Direction
Environment
Public spaces, transport, and access for people with disabilities.
Health Services
Particularly the assessment and management of dementia and chronic diseases.
Housing
Social housing, communal housing, and emergency housing.
Social Isolation
Securely identify isolated older people and provide for their physical and psychological well-being.
Aged Care Services
Ageing and aged care services information – ensuring accessibility.
Elder Abuse
Awareness, assessment, and prevention.
Latest News
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Webinar | Presenting Issues 2023-24 Annual report launch
Date: Wednesday 6 November 2024Time: 1 – 2 pm AEDT OPAN’s network members received more than 44,000 requests for advocacy and information support from older people, their families and other representatives in 2023-24 – a 20% increase on the previous year. What they told us forms the basis of our annual Presenting Issues Report. OPAN CEO Craig Gear OAM will discuss… Read more
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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Webinar
On behalf of the Chair and the Executive Council of IAGG AOR, we are pleased to invite you to attend the ‘Age-Friendly Cities and Communities’ webinar scheduled for 21st October 2024. This webinar will explore experiences in building age friendly communities from the ground up, considering local, regional, global and social perspectives. Date: Monday 21st October Time: 10.00am –… Read more
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International Geriatric Medicine Conference 2024: Join Us in Newcastle
The Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute would like to invite you to join us in our beautiful city for this high-quality learning event. This conference will provide both the critical opportunity to meet with our experts in person, as well as the chance to interact with our leading international speakers. Geriatric Medicine often involves a complex interplay… Read more
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Join Us for the EveryAGE Counts Webinar on Ageism
HMRI Healthy Minds invites you to join University of NewcastleStaff and Students, together with the local community, for anIntergenerational Viewing Experience, as we meet to view anddiscuss the EveryAGE Counts Ageism Awareness Webinar –there’s an outstanding list of speakers. When: Wednesday 9th October; 10:00 am – 12 noonWhere: HMRI Caves Theatre, Lot 1 Kookaburra Cct,… Read more
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Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia’s health care sector.
The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Read more
