The latest World Ageing Competition in Singapore was a worldwide gathering of individuals whose hearts and minds are dedicated to enhancing the lives of older folks. It reminded that we aren’t alone within the challenges we face – and by sharing and studying with our worldwide companions, we are able to flip these challenges into alternatives.
It gave Ageing Australia the possibility to showcase Australian innovation, forge new connections, and be taught from a few of the world’s greatest.
A spotlight for me was signing a brand new Memorandum of Understanding with Ageing Asia founder and managing director Janice Chia. This partnership is key to our three-year world engagement technique – a foundational step that can drive collaboration and information sharing and strengthen companies for older folks each right here and abroad.
Australia has lengthy been a frontrunner in aged care reform, workforce improvement and innovation. By way of initiatives like InnovAGEING, our nationwide innovation community, our sector has proven how creativity and new considering could make an actual distinction to folks’s lives.
We are able to be taught from our devoted leaders throughout the Australian sector, but additionally by wanting past our borders to our worldwide friends, whether or not they’re in Singapore, Tokyo or Seoul.
Communities within the Asia-Pacific are going through the identical demographic pressures as Australia, and we have now a lot to be taught from them.
We should embrace the revolutionary options demonstrated by our world neighbours.
International locations like Japan and South Korea will not be simply confronting the challenges of ageing, they’re main from the entrance, taking daring dangers, embracing synthetic intelligence, robotics and sensible applied sciences to remodel look after older folks.
At Ageing Australia’s Innovation Reworking Aged Care convention in Melbourne, I spoke concerning the pressing want for our sector to remain forward of change.
“AI is not going to take your job, however somebody who makes use of it is going to take your prospects,” is a quote I’ve heard lately that sticks in my thoughts.
Innovation is in all places. Typically, the largest obstacles are those we impose on ourselves.
If we would like aged care in Australia to thrive, we should be proactive, bold and prepared to look globally for brand spanking new concepts and options.
Our partnership with Ageing Asia is a superb leap ahead. It indicators our dedication to a future the place older folks can reside with dignity, objective and alternative, wherever they reside.
By working collectively and embracing innovation, we are able to guarantee Australia’s aged care sector stays among the finest on the planet.
Tom Symondson is chief government officer of Ageing Australia
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