Aged & Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA) will next month hold the first aged care National Conference in three years, the debut conference for the peak body following the merger of ACSA and LASA earlier this year.
With the theme “It’s Up to Us”, the conference will feature a variety of speakers including:
- Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay
- Former Aged Care Minister, and Australia’s first Indigenous federal Minister, Ken Wyatt AM
- Interim CEO of the Care Economy CRC Carmela Sergi
- Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson PSM.
In addition, speakers from the Federal Government and Opposition, as well as aged care sector leaders, will present over the three-day event.
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The aged care sector has been dealing with enormous challenges presented by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and its wide-ranging recommendations for reform, and the COVID-19 pandemic, now in its third year,” said ACCPA Interim CEO Paul Sadler (pictured).
“Our National Conference theme, ‘It’s Up to Us’, recognises that each of us must own the transformation of the aged services industry and put into practice the change we want to see so that we can raise the standard of what we do to the highest level.
“It’s up to us to enable consumers, deliver quality care, provide transparency, build trust, improve governance, attract qualified workers, lift standards, innovate, and secure our livelihoods.”
The ACCPA National Conference will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 12-14 October. LASA’s last conference was in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
