In the second part of our podcast conversation with Sarah Empey, and Jacqui O'Leary from Community Matters Media, we delve deeper into the morals and ethics of diversifying communication styles including providing audio descriptions to support the understanding and interpretation of art for people with low vision and others who prefer this medium.  

Make sure you listen to the end where a live demonstration of art describing, gives listeners an in-depth behind-the-scenes' insight into the process of art describing. 

Discover how assistive technology (AT) is transforming art experiences in Part One of our digital storytelling series. Join Jacqui O’Leary (Community Matters Media) as she interviews Sarah Empey, a legally blind accessible design consultant, who uses audio descriptions to make art accessible to the blind and low-vision community. 

Tune in for innovative ways to experience art, the power of storytelling, and the vital role of AT in fostering creativity and inclusivity. 

Discover the talkative tools and strategies helping AT Chat’s AT Mentor Glenn continue to dabble in woodwork safely and independently after losing his vision. 

In this episode, Hilary O’Connell has a chat with Professor Peter Gore, Professor of practice in ageing and vitality at the Population Health Science Institute at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Peter's work involves aged-related functional decline and the malleability of ageing. 

He has over 33 years of experience in medical product design. One of the tools Peter has developed with his company ADL Smartcare, is the LifeCurve™, which helps people understand how they are ageing and how they can take action toward improving their healthy ageing journey.

Together they discuss what healthy ageing looks like, the importance of sharing trustworthy information with an ageing population and aged care service providers, to change attitudes towards ageing and bring practical examples and tools to improve independence to have more 'good days'. 

Welcome to iLA’s conversations about reablement in the aged care sector. With our mission to build awareness about reablement, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in the aged care sector and getting their diverse views about care services and their experiences and insights.  So far, Hilary has talked to researchers, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.

This episode is with Nicola Seafield. Allied Health and STRC team lead at Mercycare, West Australia.

Hear how a trip to Rottnest Island with her family led to Polly discovering the joy and freedom mobility products can give you when you live with the challenges of Parkinson's. 

Welcome to iLA’s conversations about reablement in the aged care sector. With our mission to build awareness about reablement, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in the aged care sector and getting their diverse views about care services and their experiences and insights.  So far, Hilary has talked to researchers, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.

This episode is with Gill Lewin,  Member of the Australian Governments Council of Elders and Adjunct Professor at the Enable Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University, Perth, WA.

Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views.  So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Angie Slater, Director of Home Care and Retirement Living, Juniper, West Australia.

Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been out and about chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views.  So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Laura Coleman. Practice Advisor Aged Care and Dementia at Avivo, West Australia.

Welcome to iLA’s conversations about ageing. With our mission to build awareness about reablement in the aged care sector, Hilary O’Connell, our Principal Advisor of Healthy Ageing and Reablement, has been chatting with a diverse range of people working in aged care and getting their diverse views.  So far we’ve talked to researchers in reablement, Home Care Managers, Regional Assessment Services, and Aged Care Practice Advisors.
This episode is with Dr Elissa Burton, Associate Professor Enable Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences Curtin University, Perth, WA.