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📅 Wednesday, 23 September 2026
🕐 11:00am - 12:00pm AEST
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Overview

Join for the first Ageing Reframed panel.

The sector has embraced dignity and person-centred care. It has paid far less attention to identity - the person's sense of who they are - and the part it plays in how people make decisions and adopt behaviours. Whether someone seeks help, stays on a medication, or accepts support at all often turns on whether the step sits with who they take themselves to be. Aged care has embraced dignity and person-centred care. It has paid far less attention to identity - the person's sense of who they are - and the part it plays in how people make decisions and adopt behaviours.

That is the focus of this session. Whether an older person seeks help, stays on a medication or rejects it, or accepts support at all often relates less to clinical factors and more on whether the action sits comfortably with their identity as an older person. Things that threaten our identity tend to be resisted, while we more readily accept and adopt things that align with who we already are. Identity, in this sense, functions as a barrier or a driver of behaviour - and this is something the sector has barely begun to focus on.

What’s Covered

The panel examines what this means in practice across three challenges the sector is contending with:

• Ageing in place, and the family carers who sustain it
• Delayed help-seeking, and why many people do not take their medicines as prescribed
• Culturally safe, everyday care under the new Aged Care Act

Who should attend

Aged care providers, policymakers, researchers, and anyone interested in ageing well

Cost

Free

Presented by

Canterbury City Community Centre

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