The Melbourne Ageing Research Collaboration (MARC) invites you to a Community-based Mental Health Care Forum which will provide the opportunity to build on your knowledge of research on community based programs to improve the mental health and wellbeing of older people. In addition, the forum will help set the MARC research agenda for our next MARC project. You may like to be involved in generating ideas and designing this new initiative.

12:30-12:35	Welcome Dr Kirsten Moore, MARC Senior Research Fellow
12:35-1:05	Healthy Ageing Service Response Eastern Health & St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Dr Terence Chong, Tanya Cottrell, Dr Paul Sadler
1:05-1:25	Capturing Grief through Surveys, Interviews and Poetry First MARC project under the Mental Health Theme National Ageing Research Institute Dr Katrin Gerber
1:25-1:30	Short break
1:30-1:50	Supporting Socially Isolated Older Adults Merri Health Christina Micallef
1:50-2:05	Social prescribing for online social connection in older adults - key learnings from the OP-ALMA project Turning Point Dr Shalini Arunogiri
2:05-2:30	Next steps and close

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Please note this event is limited to employees of MARC partner organisations & Community Advisory Group members

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