If you are a South Australian aged 50+, you are invited to COTA SA’s event to celebrate International Day of Older Persons.

COTA [Council on the Ageing] SA is an older people's movement – the peak body representing and engaging with diverse South Australians aged 50+ on their rights, interests, and futures.

Ageing is a time of possibility, opportunity, and new challenges. Ageing is also very different now from the experience of previous generations. Older people today can find previous ‘rules’ and stereotypes entrenched, and impediments to living as they wish.

It’s time to rewrite the rules on ageing. It’s time to embrace new ways of getting older.

Hear from COTA SA’s guests, Maggie Beer AM, Keith Conlon OAM and Polly Sumner Dodd, about their experiences as they age – what works, what doesn’t, what they love, what they hate, what they wish was different – and engage in conversation about what it means to age well in 2022.

To help COTA SA shape its program and build the picture of ageing in 2022, please share your experience of being an older South Australian here.

When: 30 September 2022, 9:30am – 12:00pm

Where: U City, 43 Franklin St, Adelaide

Guests: Maggie Beer AM + Keith Conlon OAM + Polly Sumner Dodd

RSVP: www.cotasa.org.au/idop2022 or 08 8232 0422

Support for older people from regional South Australia to attend

Office for Ageing Well and Seniors Card are proud sponsors of COTA SA’s Ageing: It’s time to re-write the rules event for International Day of Older Persons.

To help regionally based* people attend the event in Adelaide on 30 September, we are providing up to $450 towards travel and accommodation costs for four individuals aged 50+.

To apply for one of these places and for terms and conditions, please visit www.cotasa.org.au/idop2022 and complete an expression of interest form.

*Regional South Australia is all postcodes and suburbs not included or partly included in the ABS greater Adelaide definition. The post codes listed here are considered to be in Regional South Australia.

COTA SA is supported by Office for Ageing Well, SA Health to deliver a statewide Ageing Well Program to strengthen the rights and improve the lives of older South Australians; and to strengthen community capacity to enable older South Australians, in particular from LGBTI and regional communities, to age well, safeguard their rights, prevent elder abuse, and create meaningful connections.