Positive Ageing Consultative CommitteeThe Positive Ageing Consultative Committee provides advice and support to Government on positive ageing issues and initiatives of the Department of Premier and Cabinet's Seniors Bureau. There are two statements at the core of positive ageing:
Functions of the Positive Ageing Consultative CommitteeThe Positive Ageing Consultative Committee:
MembershipMembers of the Positive Ageing Consultative Committee do not represent particular groups, and are chosen for the individual commitment, knowledge and energy they bring to providing advice to the Government and progressing positive ageing in the community. ChairMr Barry Isaac, Turners Beach Barry Isaac is an advocate for the needs of older people from low socio-economic backgrounds. He is a member of his local Probus Club, and is the vice-president of the Mersey branch of the Association of Independent Retirees. Barry is a former vice-president of the Tasmanian Pensioners Union. MembersMrs Beth Bennett, Orford Beth Bennett is an advocate for the needs of older people on the East Coast of Tasmania. She is a member of the Glamorgan Spring Bay Municipal Health Advisory Committee, Vice-Chair of the Prosser House Board of Management, President of the East Coast Tasmanian sub branch of the War Widows Guild, and mentor to the Triabunna Skill Centre and District High School. She is a former Spring Bay Municipal Councillor, and in 1990 was Citizen of the Year for the Spring Bay Municipality. Mr Iain Duguid, Orford As a professional conference speaker, Iain Duguid advocates positive ageing, redirection rather than retirement and targeted marketing to mature people. Iain is a Director of the Tasmania Committee, which is responsible for the "Love This Place" campaign aimed at improving Tasmanians' positive attitude to their island and is a peer educator with the Council of the Ageing (COTA). Ms Lyn Cameron, Launceston Lyn Cameron is an advocate for the needs of older people and people with disabilities and has worked at Family Based Care North since 1996. Lyn has served on various tribunals and boards over the past 10 years including the Guardianship and Administration Board, Mental Health Tribunal, Launceston Legal Service and Commissioner for Children's Advisory Panel. Lyn's passions include promoting positive ageing, the environment and social justice issues. Mrs Rowena MacKean, Montagu Bay Rowena MacKean helped start Clarence University of the Third Age (U3A) and was awarded an OAM in 2007 for services to adult and community education. She is co-facilitator of the Third Age Learning Network of Tasmania (TALENT) and is currently working for her Masters (Education) at the University of Tasmania, on the topic of older people’s learning. Mrs MacKean is a member of the Clarence City Council’s Positive Ageing Advisory Committee working to put the Clarence Positive Ageing Plan into practice. Ms Shirley Williams, Bagdad Ms Williams is the founder and secretary of Bridgewater School for Seniors and has an active role encouraging the community to recognise and value the skills of older people and in encouraging them to participate and/or contribute their skills. She also established the Women’s Information Network in the Brighton municipality and is coordinator of the Bridgewater-Brighton Online Access Centre. Mrs Heather Donaldson, Westbury Mrs Donaldson is a community health educator and published the positive ageing guide, Grow Old DISgracefully, in 1999. She has also produced resource material incorporating positive ageing messages. Mrs Donaldson is a member of the Older Persons Reference Group Launceston and has extensive experience organising community events. Mr John Porter, Howrah Mr Porter is a foundation member of National Seniors Australia (NSA) Hobart branch, Chair of the NSA Tasmanian Policy Group, a member of the NSA National Council and National Policy Group. Mr Porter is a member of the Order of St John and Lions Club International, including two terms as zone chair. Mrs Sally Walker, Orielton Mrs Walker is a full-time employee at TAFE, on the Aged and Enrolled Nurses Team teaching Community Aged Care courses. Prior to this she managed four Salvation Army Community Aged Care programs in Southern Tasmania with clients comprising some of the most financially and socially disadvantaged seniors in the community. Mrs Walker is a member of Hobart’s 50 & Better Advisory Committee, Glenorchy Linkages, Healthy Ageing Network South and the sub committee ‘Still Gardening’. All these committees promote positive ageing principles within the community. Mrs Walker is the president of the Hobart club of Zonta International. Mr Kenneth McNeill, Ulverstone Mr McNeill was the Department of Veterans’ Affairs men’s health peer education representative (2001 – 2005), and is currently the vice-president of the RAAF Association North-West Branch and Ulverstone RSL, president of the National Malaya Borneo Veterans Association (Tasmania branch), and the Central Coast Veterans’ Support Centre’s welfare and pension officer and regularly visits veterans in aged care homes. Mr McNeill is interested in enabling people to remain in their own homes as long as possible. Cr Robert Beveridge, Port Sorell Cr Robert Beveridge was elected to the Latrobe Council in 2000 and is national president of Apex 40. Cr Beveridge has retired but is active in the local community through sport and recreation and promoting Aboriginal participation in sports. Mrs Diane Heckenberg, Sandy Bay Mrs Heckenberg commenced her university studies at age 52 and became interested in positive ageing after undertaking a thesis about ageing prisoners for a Masters of Criminology and Corrections. Growing up in a New Zealand public housing estate, developed Mrs Heckenberg’s empathy for the disadvantaged and gave her an understanding of ageing in such neighbourhoods. Mrs Heckenberg has been a member a project team involved in a joint initiative between Bethlehem House and the University of Tasmania focussing on post-release options for ageing prisoners in Tasmania.
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