Conference on Ageing Told: The Elderly Need Money, Health and Respect (New Zealand)

Wellington Conference on Ageing Told: The elderly Need Money, Health and Respect.

By LINDSAY SHELTON

October 8, 2009

Press Release – Age Concern

“Older New Zealanders need adequate income, access to health care including dental care, safety and an over-arching need for respect.” These are the first findings from a major conference on ageing held in Wellington this week.

“We’ve reached the half-way point of our conference, and participants tell me we’re doing well. The consensus is that Age Concern New Zealand’s priorities for older people are the right ones,” national president Liz Baxendine says.

“Conference speakers have unanimously emphasised the vital importance for older people of adequate income, health care access, safety, good social relationships and overcoming chronic loneliness, and an overarching need for respect for seniors. “Age Concern has practical, health and welfare services that are helping to achieve these aims. We’re on the right track and we’re keen to do more.”

Over 400 conference delegates are attending Living in an Ageing Society – Shaping Tomorrow Today, the joint Age Concern New Zealand and New Zealand Association of Gerontology conference in Wellington this week.

Participants are looking at ways the rapidly increasing proportion of older New Zealanders will ‘shape tomorrow’.

Abridged

SOURCE:     Scoop.Co.NZ

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