Friday, 24th May 6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research 2024

Optimising Exercise & Nutritional Approaches to Offsetting Age-related Declines in Muscle Mass & Function

Prof Stuart Phillips
Director & Research Chair
Physical Activity Centre of Excellence (PACE)
McMaster University

Symposium Topic: 

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Managing Frailty

Invited Speakers:

Dr Elsa Dent
Senior Research Fellow
Torrens University
Adelaide

Prof Cathy Said
Professor Physiotherapy
Western Health & The University of Melbourne

Prof Renuka Visvanathan
Head of Unit
Geriatric Medicine
Queen Elizabeth Hospital

• Remote Assessment and Management of Physical Function in Older Adults (RAMP): An International Modified Delphi Process to Develop Consumer Consensus - David Scott
• Frailty in older adults presenting to an acute geriatric medicine service: -12-month outcomes from the Western Sydney Clinical Frailty Registry. - Julee McDonagh
• The association between sleep duration and risk of frailty: results of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal study (CHARLS) - Yuquan Chen
• Evaluation of behaviour change training for case managers in the Transition Care Program using Kirkpatrick's Model - Natasha Reid

Each speaker will give a 10 minute presentation followed by 5 minutes for audience Q&A at the conclusion of their talk. 

• Relationship between traditional and newer measures of body composition with handgrip strength and sit-to-stand tests in healthy middle-age Australian women using DXA, BIA and 3D optical scanning.   - Christopher J Oliver
• Associations between sleep and breathing with sarcopenia in postmenopausal women - Rajani Khanal
• Physiotherapists now focus on Frailty, how we changed our service at Liverpool Hospital  - Julia Eades
• Exploring clinicians’ perspectives of the transition from hospital to home for frail older adults to identify gaps in care: a qualitative study - Kirsten Parker
• Is intrinsic motor neurone excitability reduced in sarcopenic individuals? - Lucas B.R. Orssatto
• Associations between sarcopenia and domains of quality of life in older adults: a population-based cross-sectional study - Emma C West

Each speaker will have 10 minutes to talk which includes time for audience Q&A. 

Ageing Well from an Indigenous Lens- challenge deficit thinking

Ms Katrina Pōtiki Bryant
Project Lead & Lecturer
Taurite Tū Ltd & Kura o Komiripai
Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou & Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka

Frailty in the context of retirement village living

Dr. Katherine Bloomfield
Senior Lecturer & Geriatrician
Department of Medicine
University of Auckland & Te Whatu Ora Waitemata

Caring for those with advanced frailty in residential aged care

Dr. Michal Boyd
Honorary Associate Professor & Nurse Practitioner
School of Nursing, Department of Geriatric Medicine
University of Auckland

Developing a Deterioration Early Warning System for aged care

Mrs Julie Daltrey
Professional Teaching Fellow
The University of Auckland

Snapshots: Medicines use in retirement villages & equitable access to bisphosphonates

Dr. Joanne Hikaka
Senior Research Fellow
University of Auckland