Opening remarks

Ms Lesley Podesta – First Assistant Secretary Ageing and Aged Care Department of Health and Ageing

Exercise and Cognition in later life: an update

Professor Nicola Lautenschlager – AUPOA University of Melbourne

Exercise and residential care

Dr Elizabeth Cyarto – NARI

Falls prevention: all that evidence but the rates won’t come down

Active Ageing in Victoria

Ms Jane Herington – Director Aged Care Department of Health Victoria

Sex and sexagenarians

Professor Lorraine Dennerstein – Hon Professorial Fellow NARI

Living longer living stronger

Ms Sue Hendy – CEO COTA Victoria

Healthy Ageing Quiz

Dr Briony Dow – NARI

Multi and interdisciplinary approaches to the big challenges in health

Professor Richard Head – CSIRO

Closing comments

Mr Michael W Gorton – Partner, Russell Kennedy Solicitors/Board Member, Victoria Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission

Alzheimer’s disease: research on causes and treatments

Professor David Ames, NARI director

Huntington’s disease – inderella comes to the ball

Mild Cognitive Impairment – What is it and what can we do about it?

Professor Nicola Lautenschlager, University of Melbourne Professor of
Psychiatry of Old Age and Director St Vincent’s Health Aged Psychiatry
Programme

Cognitive training for Mild Cognitive Impairment

Pain and dementia

Dementia in Remote Indigenous Communities

Developing a Dementia Resource Guide

Dr Briony Dow, Director NARI Public Health Division and Ms Kirsten
Moore, Research Fellow, NARI

A memory friendly society

Ms Anne Unkenstein, Neuropsychologist Melbourne Health CDAMS Clinic