Future of Ageing Awards winners revealed

Southern Cross Care NSW & ACT took top prize in the People & Culture category

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Around 150 people turned out at Dockside Darling Harbour in Sydney last night to learn the results of the 2024 Future of Ageing Awards.


The evening awards presentation followed the daytime conference that featured 15 panels and presentations across leadership and innovation, operations, IT, people and design. Updated: Video recordings of the conference presentations are now available.

Notable winners included Mirus Australia, who enjoyed success in the Technology – Business category, winning an award for the Mirus Metrics AN-ACC funding application, and receiving a highly commended award for the Mirus AI platform. Mirus Co-Founder Rob Covino presented during the conference on the role of AI in increasing insights from data analysis in aged care.

Rob Covino, Co-Founder, Mirus Australia

Providers featured prominently across most categories, with St Vincent’s Care being recognised in four categories, including Consumer Experience for their Celebrating You Series – supporting families to navigate the emotions of aged care decisions.

Inside Ageing will publish profiles on the winners and highly commended over the next few months, with links to these being added to each of the award recipients listed below.

The winners and highly commended:

Technology – Consumers

Winner: IRT Group and Extranet Systems for their Co-Developed Falls Detector & Health Monitoring Solution.

Read more about this solution here.

Winner: Elli Cares app

Read more about this winning entry here

Community Engagement

Winner: HammondCare for the Last Days Program, presented by Rural Lap’s Jessica Andrew, event sponsor – RHS.

Community Engagement

Highly Commended: Resthaven for their 25+ year Partnership with Vision Australia Radio

Community Engagement

Highly Commended: Home Instead for their BASTAS – Be a Santa to a Senior Christmas Card Campaign

Community Engagement

Highly Commended: St Vincent’s Aged Care Toowoomba for their Intergenerational MasterChef Program.

Read more about this entry here.

Technology – Business

(l-r) The Mirus Australia team with 2023 award winner Marleen Galligan from the employee referral app Care Friends

Winner: Mirus Australia for Mirus Metrics

Highly Commended: Mirus Australia for Mirus AI and the Careverse

Technology – Business

Highly Commended: iAgeHealth Virtual Workforce Solution

Social Inclusion

(l-r) The Proveda team with 2023 award winners Prof Claire Johnson
(l-r) The Proveda team with 2023 award winner Prof Claire Johnson, Palliative Care Outcomes Program.

Winner: Proveda for the The Belong Club

Service Transformation

Winner: ACH Group for Healthia Residential Care Home

Service Transformation

Highly Commended: Five Good Friends’ innovative micro-credential program

Service Transformation

Highly Commended: St Vincent’s Care for Heartprint – A New Era of Compassionate Aged Care

Research

Winner: Uniting AgeWell for the Talking Mental Health research project

Property & Design

Winner: CareVillas Australia

People & Culture

Winner: Montefiore for their program to address knowledge gaps among nursing and care staff

Read more about this program here

People & Culture

(l-r) Southern Cross team with 2021 award winner James Stack from Obvious Choice.

Winner: Southern Cross Care NSW & ACT for applying innovative solutions to attract and retain staff

Read more about these solutions here.

Health & Wellbeing

BoltonClarke

Winner: Bolton Clarke Montclaire STEM program

Read more about the program here.

Health & Wellbeing

Highly Commended: GreenConnect Dementia Respite

Consumer Experience

Winner: St Vincent’s for Care Celebrating You Series (TV & Podcast) – Supporting families to navigate the emotions of aged care decisions (presented by 2020 award winner Colin Pudsey from SilVR Adventures)

Consumer Experience

Highly Commended: Dementia Australia for their Meaningful Engagement Mentors Program. Dementia Australia’s Learning Designer and Facilitator Karen Cmiel received the award from 2020 Award winner Colin Pudsey, Founder of SilVR Adventures.

Emerging Leader

Winner: Curtis Reddell, Brightwater Care Group

Emerging Leader

Highly Commended: Annie Kahulugan, St Vincent’s Care

Leader of the Year

Winner: Alyson Jarrett, Deputy CEO, Whiddon Group

Read more about Alyson’s achievements here.

Leader of the Year

Highly Commended: Jacqueline Quirke, Southern Cross Care (NSW & ACT)

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