WHEN:<\/strong> Monday 7th November 2016, 9.30am\u2014 4pm Elder abuse, Ageism and Human Rights: Innovative Approaches
\nWHERE:<\/strong> Smock Alley , 6\/7 Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
\nAIM:<\/strong> To explore new ways of understanding elder abuse; the use of the creative arts as a tool to confront\u00a0pervasive societal issues such as ageism, intergenerational discord which create environments\u00a0where elder abuse and ageism flourish.
\nTARGET AUDIENCE:<\/strong> Health and social care professionals, drama practitioners , academics, NGO\u00a0organisations, older people\u2019s groups and care providers
\nThe S.T.Age Project, funded under Erasmus +, consists of a partnership between non-governmental\u00a0organisations from Ireland, Finland, Italy and Romania. The project is developing a training and\u00a0educational programme aimed at raising awareness amongst older people of their human rights,\u00a0empower them to exercise their rights and challenge ageist attitudes amongst health and social care\u00a0professionals.
\nThe workshops being developed will be showcased at the conference
\nTo register your interest in attending email: conference@ageaction.ie
\nKEYNOTE ADDRESS<\/strong>
\nProfessor Simon Biggs Simon Biggs, PhD. Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy, School of Social\u00a0& Political Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia.
\nLinks with University of Heidelberg (Netzwerk AlternsfoRschung), University College Dublin (National\u00a0Centre for the Protection of Older People) , and Helsinki (Dept Social Policy). Simon has participated\u00a0in EC, Canadian and Australian Government briefings on dignity in later life and population ageing.\u00a0He was a member of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Agenda Council on Ageing Societies from\u00a02008 to 2014. He is Honorary Visiting Professor of Gerontology at King\u2019s College London.\u00a0Professor Biggs interests include the relationship between social identity and adult ageing, including\u00a0the analysis of international and national social policy, the changing adult life-course, intergenerational
\nrelationships and social and personal experience of ageing.
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