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TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION AGEING RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA

TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION AGEING RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA. Ms Mary Murnane Deputy Secretary Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

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TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTION AGEING RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA

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  1. TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO ACTIONAGEING RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA Ms Mary Murnane Deputy Secretary Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

  2. This paper outlines what Australia has been doing to build research on ageing since 2002, and some of the lessons we are learning from that process.

  3. CONTEXT • Ageing research is crucial to maintaining older people’s health and wellbeing & economic and social participation • International Research Agenda on Ageing for the 21st Century (Valencia, 2002) • National Strategy for an Ageing Australia (2002) identified the importance of an ageing research agenda in Australia

  4. THE ISSUE • Ageing is a cross-disciplinary issue • How do we build evidence on ageing? • How do we translate evidence into action?

  5. AUSTRALIA’S RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT Australian cross-disciplinary research organisations relevant to ageing: • Australian Research Council (ARC) • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

  6. These research organisations support quality and excellence in research. There is a new move towards a stronger focus on relevance and applicability.

  7. RESEARCH PRIORITIES National Research Priorities were announced in December 2002. “Ageing Well, Ageing Productively” was identified as a research priority goal in the National Research Priority Promoting and Maintaining Good Health.

  8. BUILDING AGEING RESEARCH CAPACITY • Research networks and collaboration • Information sources and dissemination • Translating evidence into policy and practice

  9. RESEARCH NETWORKS AND COLLABORATION • ARC Research Network in Ageing Well • Joint NHMRC/ARC work on “Ageing Well, Ageing Productively” • Australian Association of Gerontology

  10. INFORMATION SOURCES AND DISSEMINATION • Ageing Research On-Line (www.aro.gov.au) • National conferences on ageing research • Longitudinal studies

  11. TRANSLATING EVIDENCE INTO POLICY & PRACTICE • The next big challenge. • Initiatives we can build on are: • Burden of Disease studies • National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) • Health Insite and Seniors Portal • National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre • National responses to emerging issues such as obesity

  12. FUTURE CHALLENGES • Aligning research activity with emerging issues • Using evaluation to identify priorities • Engaging older people in setting research priorities • Maximising availability and uptake of evidence

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