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Title: Healthy Ageing Research


1
Healthy Ageing Research Developments and
Lessons
  • By
  • Hal Kendig
  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • University of Sydney
  • National Symposium on Ageing Research
  • The Australian Research Agenda Priorities and
    Challenges?
  • Canberra
  • 24 September, 2003

2
Overview
  • 1. What is Ageing Research?
  • 2. Healthy Ageing Policy Contexts
  • 3. The Healthy Ageing Research Review
  • 4. National Research Priorities
  • 5. The PMSEIC Report
  • 6. Issues and Directions

3
1. What is Ageing Research?
  • Individual and Population Ageing are Fundamental
  • Older People Focused Their Views Represented
  • Interconnectedness of Issues in Old Age
  • Life Course, Generations, and Social Change
  • Environmental as well as Individual Dimensions
  • - NOT just what happens ON older people
  • Ageing Research Features
  • Connections to End Point Users of Knowledge
  • Bio-psycho-social Approaches
  • Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

4
Why Research?
  • Ideas, information purposeful change
  • Balancing a biased base of knowledge
  • What do older people want?
  • What can be improved?
  • What works to improve things?
  • Are we going forward?
  • Who misses out?

5
2. Policy Context
  • National Strategy for an Ageing Australia
  • An Older Australia, Challenges and Opportunities
    for all
  • The Hon Kevin Andrews, MP, Minister for
    Ageing, 2002
  • Healthy Ageing involves
  • Disease protection and optimal well-being
  • Mentally, physically, and socially active
  • Maximise capacities to participate contribute
  • Government, business, communities individuals
  • Research will underpin the National Strategy for
    an Ageing Australia and fine tune its
    implementation. We need
  • to understand and reassess what is happening as
    the population ages. A good evidence base will
    support the policy
  • and administrative decisions that will need to be
    made by a broad range of individuals and
    organisations. pxi

6
Healthy Ageing Programs
  • National Healthy Ageing Strategy
  • (Commonwealth, States, and Territories, 2000)
  • Community attitudes to ageing and older people
  • Health and wellbeing for older Australians
  • Employment and community activities
  • Financial other support realistic and fair
  • Appropriate living environments communities
  • Appropriate and affordable care and support

7
3. A review of healthy ageing research in
Australia
  • By
  • Hal Kendig, Faculty of Health Sciences,
    University of Sydney
  • Gary Andrews, Centre for Ageing Studies, Flinders
    University
  • Colette Browning, School of Public Health, La
    Trobe University
  • Susan Quine, Dept. of Public Health and Community
    Medicine, University of Sydney
  • Amanda Parsons, Health and Ageing Research
    Program, University of Sydney
  • This report was prepared for the Community
    Services Ministers Advisory Council, 2000
  • Distributed by the Office for an Ageing
    Australia, Commonwealth Department of Health and
    Ageing, Canberra

8
2. The Healthy Ageing Review
  • Commonwealth Office for Older Australians (for
    Community Services Ministers Advisory Council)
  • Identify policy information needs for healthy
    ageing
  • Review available research
  • Consider present and future players
  • researchers
  • policy makers
  • NGOS
  • Recommend funding and other strategies for
    research application and dissemination
  • Timing March to June 2000 project
  • Publication 2002 August

9
Methods
  • Ongoing Commonwealth and Team briefings
  • Telephone interviews policy, program,
  • advocacy groups
  • State consultations with key actors
  • Web questionnaire for researchers
  • Ageing research directories
  • Project workshops

10
Information Needs Users Views
  • Government Policy and Program Managers
  • Service Providers
  • Advocacy Groups
  • Older Populations and Carers
  • Private Sector
  • Wider Community

11
Barriers to Use of Research Users
  • Imposition of political imperatives
  • Lack of timeliness
  • Academic publications unavailable
  • Researchers misunderstand policy processes
  • Policymakers do not understand research
  • Inadequate analyses
  • Poor presentations

12
Research Providers and their Views
  • Traditional Individual Approach
  • Research Networks
  • State Centres
  • Research Institutes

13
Barriers in policy applications Researchers
  • - Insufficient research funding
  • - Lack of trained researchers
  • - Poor collaborative networks
  • - Insufficient priority by funders
  • - Lack of government commitment to planning
  • - Limited application of research findings
  • - Lack of recognition of the value of research

14
Key Recommendations
  • Ageing Priority in the Australian Research
    Council
  • and National Health and Medical Research
    Council
  • A National Institute and Dedicated Research
  • Funding Program
  • A Network of State Centres
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Commonwealth-State Action?

15
4. National Research Priorities
  • Prime Ministers December 2002 Announcement
  • Purpose/Criteria
  • Vision for research focusing on key challenges
    for Australia.
  • Build on our strengths while seeking new
    opportunities in emerging areas.
  • Strengthen collaboration between research bodies
    and with industry, and
  • Build critical mass of excellence in those key
    research areas.
  • Four Priority Areas
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Promoting Health
  • Frontier Technologies for Industries, and
  • Safeguarding Australia

16
National Research Priority Promoting and
Maintaining Good Health
  • Promoting good health and preventing disease,
    particularly among young and older Australians
  • Priority Goals
  • 1. A healthy start to life
  • 2. Ageing well, ageing productively
  • Developing new and better social and medical
    strategies to reduce mental and physical
    degeneration based on greater knowledge and
    understanding of the causes of disease and
    degeneration of mind and body.
  • 3. Preventive healthcare

17
5. PMSEIC Promoting Healthy Ageing in Australia
  • Prime Ministers Science, Engineering, and
    Innovations Council (July 2003)
  • Vision An additional 10 years of healthy and
    productive life expectancy by 2050.
  • Enhancing Research to Promote Healthy Ageing
  • - A National Network for Healthy Ageing Research
  • - Longitudinal Studies of Healthy and Productive

    Ageing

18
6. Issues Directions
  • Priority for useful knowledge
  • Balance of fundamental, priority-driven, and
  • development and evaluation (who decides?)
  • Involve end point users in forming and doing
  • research as well as using it
  • Dissemination and application are essential
  • Quality of research/ers and Ongoingness
  • Optimism (but when?)

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Conclusions Big Questions
  • Can researchers demonstrate value and
  • usefulness?
  • Can politicians and program managers think
  • longer term?
  • Can Australians recognise the value of applied
  • research for informed societal action?
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