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Aged Care Act Senate inquiry: National Older Persons Reference Group member Helen Walne gives evidence. Helen Walne told a Senate inquiry last week that her health had deteriorated significantly in the wake of increased transport costs. Helen, a member of… Read More »Transport costs discriminate against people in rural areas
Advocacy in action: National Older Persons Reference Group members Scott Hyams and Gwenda Darling Age erodes people’s human rights. ‘To put it bluntly, you are not seen as an equal to our younger citizens,’ OPAN CEO Craig Gear told the… Read More »Eight ways OPAN is tackling ageism
Robin Vote is a member of OPAN’s National Older Persons Reference Group, which was formed in 2020 to hear directly from older people about the issues that affect them and to facilitate their active participation in aged care reform. Tell… Read More »‘The best thing about being older is being me’
Today is an historic day in our sector. I would personally like to congratulate the Albanese Government and the Coalition on reaching a hard-fought-for consensus on the new Aged Care Act and accompanying funding model to support it. A rights-based… Read More »OPAN welcomes introduction of new Aged Care Act
OPAN’s National Older Persons Reference Group meeting 2024 Age discrimination, affordable housing, and a more effective process for handling complaints … these were just some of the topics up for discussion when 22 members of OPAN’s National Older Persons Reference… Read More »Nothing about us, without us!
Aged care resident and National Older Persons Reference Group member Rosemary Seam Food was one of the top 5 care/service delivery issues* raised with OPAN advocates in the last financial year by older people living in residential aged care. A… Read More »‘I spend as little time in the dining room as I can’
Danijela Hlis – OPAN National Older Persons Reference Group member Many older people are caught between 2 worlds, according to dementia advocate and OPAN National Older Persons Reference Group member Danijela Hlis. ‘One is the world of the family, and if we… Read More »Building resilience
National Older Persons Reference Group Member Kate Puls. The back of an ambulance is not the place to start thinking about what’s important to you, says National Older Persons Reference Group Member Kate Puls. An ambassador for Advance Care Planning… Read More »‘Reclaim your voice’ with Advance care plan
In the lead-up to International Women’s Day 2024, four members of OPAN’s National Older Person’s Reference Group share their views on this year’s theme: ‘Inspiring Inclusion’. Danijela Hlis In the country of my birth, Slovenia, International Women’s Day was always a big… Read More »What inclusion means to older women
National Older Persons Reference Group member Gwenda Darling. If I hadn’t handed in my driver’s licence, it would have been taken off me. A few weeks earlier, I had been sitting at a set of traffic lights. I saw the… Read More »Without a licence, you are trapped