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For Grey Revolution’s last episode this season, we have Sarah Edgar. Sarah joins me from her home in Tanzania, where she founded an organisation to get young Game Changers to volunteer in their communities and inspire all Tanzanian’s to support the elders around them. Starting just two years ago, now has over 80 regular volunteers, is researching the impact Save Elders Tanzania is creating and has been featured on the BBC for the amazing work she and her colleague are achieving. Join me as Sarah and I talk about the challenges she faces, and hear how she engages young people to drive sustainable impact and help achieve change for older people all over Tanzania. Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/10 to get the show notes! The Grey Revolution Podcast is an initiative by Acorn Network.

Today I talk to Lee Veitch. The Manager of Workforce and Innovation at Aged and Community Services Australia - otherwise known as ACSA. Lee is a human with so much knowledge of workforce and supporting all managers and organisations to see the benefits of engaging and inspiring our current and future leaders. So naturally, with it being our shared passion - Lee and I got chatting about how important this is to our ageing sector plus other great topics.   This is our second last episode for season one. Please leave us a review, send an email, or tweet us. Your feedback, tweets and emails have been fantastic! It’s brilliant to hear how you’ve been enjoying these discussions with current and future ageing champions on our Podcast. But now let’s get back to the show.   Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/9 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

On today’s podcast we have Nicki Doyle, Partner and co-lead for aged care at global consulting firm KPMG.    Nicki has worked for many years as a clinical physiotherapist in Australian and the UK before moving into consulting.   We chat about how taking on different and unexpected projects as a clinician opened up exciting opportunities, why she made the move into consulting, and she shares how she has taken hold of opportunities (and half-opportunities) to grow into her career and develop the skills needed to take on that next challenge.   Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/8 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

Now's the time to meet another Generation Y who is 100% team aged care. Riaza Rigby works as a lawyer at Russell Kennedy Lawyers, She advises aged care providers regarding legislative responsibilities and compliance in both residential and home care. She is deep in regulatory compliance, legislative changes, risk and conflict management, as well as policy reviews, but it’s Riaza’s personal experience that got her interested in our ageing space. So, I wanted to know how Lawyers saw our industry, how they support aged care ... and what ignited Riaza’s passion for our ageing space.  Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/7 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

Andrew L'Arpent is Experienced Chairman with a history of working in the ageing industry in the United Kingdom, Australia and across the Commonwealth.  He served for 30 years as an infantry officer in the British Army.  This culminated in commanding an armoured battlegroup throughout the first Gulf War. In 1992 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.  After leaving the regular Army, he entered into the ageing industries where he saw the need to connect up the generations and help support older people on an international scale as chairman of CommonAge (or the Commonwealth Association of the Aged). I just love hearing Andrew’s experiences  Listening to how someone who is a confident and trusted leader can reframe our understanding of aged care to meet the changing needs and expectations of communities and countries. It's a multi-national and multi-cultural challenge. Something he’s helping to tackle right now. Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/6 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

Sean Grealy is an entrepreneur in Australia’s aged care space. He’s a Generation Y, and five years ago he graduated high school started a successful sales career and never thought aged care would be where he would end up.   Today he’s studying a Bachelor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide, travelled to Israel and Silicon Valley as part of key eChallenges and Hacker events, he's been an advocate for our ageing industry and started Care Konnect with his dad.   Join us as we talk about how startups and aged care providers can best support each other to innovate, how you can prove to those around you that you’re ready for that next challenge, and we chat about why embracing uncertainty is key to building the future we all want to grow old in.    Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/5 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

This is the episode for those who've 'fallen into' an aged care role and never looked back.   Amanda Terranova is a former high flying NYC marketing manager who found her tribe and ‘fell into’ her aged care passion.   We’ll talk about Amanda's career journey from her highflying New York global marketing role, where she worked directly with Dell Computers, GSK, Saks 5th Avenue, AT&T & Proctor and Gamble, to her role today as someone who is passionate to help shape the professional marketing reputation in the aged care sector. Now as Director of Brand and Marketing at a leading healthcare technology provider, Mirus Australia, Amanda is not only fulfilling her passion to support the growth and attraction of young aged care talent, but she also gives back through board directorships, mentoring roles and her honest insights.   Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/4 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

Have you ever considered co-design or wondered how empowering those around us can lead to better ideas and new ways of doing?   On Grey Revolution this week, I’m talking with Kelly Gray. The Founder of My Care My Choice.    Over the past 13 years, Kelly has gone from a receptionist and student with a limited understanding of ageing issues to a leader in helping seniors find their voice and share experiences in Western Australia’s aged and community care space. As a young leader (and Generation Y) she’s put in the hard yards, with over 200 hours of research on codesign in care environments, implementing these practices across Australia, and has also helped care provider prepare for new business models in the Consumer Directed Care environment here in Australia. Kelly's journey of being a social entrepreneur will inspire you. We’ll touch on our shared passion for workforce flexibility but mainly we’ll discuss why it’s important to find your champions, chat about the challenges she’s faced, and you'll hear her passion for meeting people as equals on our journey to creating new solutions.   Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/3 to get the show notes!   The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

What do gaming, astronauts, and parliamentary papers have to do with ageing? Stuart Smith is an international researcher with a passion developing technologies that facilitate independent living for all ages and abilities, and he's currently the Business Development Manager (Research) at Southern Cross University. His career has taken him from working with NASA in California to falls research in Ireland, working with Microsoft, Intel, Sony and other technology companies to develop games for older adults to not only reduce their risk of falls but in a really fun way! Along his career in ageing, Stuart has earned the title of the Disruptive Technologist, using digital technologies to rapidly connect real people with researchers and the gaming industry to transform the way all ages live, work, and play through technology. Disruptive innovation is more than just a phrase to throw around. It's a way of thinking about how do you best use digital tools to help consumers access information, goods and services. Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/2 to get the show notes! The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.

What makes a Millennial want to become a change maker in aged care and an advocate for ageing issues? Samantha Bowen is a board director, Founding Director of Acorn Network and the host of the Grey Revolution Podcast. Her personal story of resilience and how her Mum's healthcare journey highlighted the need for change, will show that passion for improving care, these workplaces, and getting young people involved in ageing discussions are vital for change to happen. Aged care and ageing issues are often labelled as "un-sexy". In fact, it is regularly represented in the media when things go horribly wrong. Samantha is passionate about getting young people (Millennials, Gen Ys, Gen Zs) seeing the potential of ageing careers and highlighting how they can get involved in these discussions and this is a fantastic industry to be part of. Whether it's influencing conversations in boardrooms, building innovative projects from scratch or leading teams in complex environments - Samantha's journey, and the leaders she interviews in future episodes - will inspire you to step up to help shape our industry's future - regardless of where you are in your leadership journey. Visit https://www.acornnetwork.com.au/listen/1 to get the show notes! The Grey Revolution Podcast is sponsored by Procura Procura is one of the leading software providers in aged care; always staying ahead to leverage fresh thinking and the latest technology to provide real and lasting benefits for providers, carers and patients to meet our growing needs in the aged, disability and community environment.