The University of Auckland Aged Care Consortium is a broad-ranging group of individuals and organisations focused on quality and equity for older adults with care needs.
An initiative of the Centre for Co-Created Ageing Research, it is an independent collective voice to improve the quality of life and equity of service for older people with care needs, while bringing the older persons’ voice and perspective to the fore.
Join the Consortium
The membership of the consortium is diverse and includes those living in care, whānau who provide care, clinical staff, quality improvement and academic as well as sector leaders. Send us an email if you are interested in joining us or want to find out more.
The membership of the consortium is diverse and includes those living in care, whānau who provide care, clinical staff, quality improvement and academic as well as sector leaders. Send us an email if you are interested in joining us or want to find out more.
Individuals and organisations that want to be part of co-creating and sharing research and knowledge are welcome to sign up to our mailing list. Membership is free currently and the forum provides an opportunity to hear about practices, models of care, sector news.
We invite you to contribute to this knowledge production and exchange. The Consortium also provides an avenue for connecting to create research opportunities. You will be invited to our biannual meetings and receive our newsletter which will include a range of opportunities including invitations to participate in research, be involved in research development, production, evaluation and dissemination and be aware of upcoming events relevant to the sector.
Meeting Updates
The first Consortium meeting was held in November 2023. At this first meeting the collective identified the following priorities:
- Sustainable, quality, equitable and co-ordinated models of care for all ageing scenarios, especially ageing in place.
- Understanding and reducing inequities (including geographic).
- Planning for a growing ageing population in a proactive way.
- Ageing treated as a life phase not a clinical process.
- Providing opportunities to enhance positive mindset in older people – confidence building, social activity and exercise – and counteracting ageism.
- Building an age friendly workforce – addressing shortages, training and conditions.
In March 2024 we hosted the second meeting of the Aged Care Consortium in Wellington which was an outstanding success. Relationships between the many members were enhanced and connections have continued to be strengthen since, including the establishment of a working group seeking to improve how we improve the use of data collected about older people (i.e interRAI assessment data) to improve quality and equity of care.
If you would like to find out more Aged Care Consortium or join our mailing list for future events email: CCREATEAGE@auckland.ac.nz