Truly golden occasion
COTANT’s fifth Seniors Expo celebrates the art of conversation, living life to the full, empowering active and healthy ageing and being bolder not just older.
2019 marks the organisation’s 50th year of service in the Northern Territory and this year we will be truly golden.
We encourage everyone who attends to dress or accessorise in gold and join our bright, beautiful and bold shout out to the wider community.
Conversation and information — At Expo this year, we have been supported by nearly 100 different individuals, community groups, organisations, service providers and government to provide you with the opportunity to meet real people, ask your questions about aged care services and supports, health, finance, mobility, respite, retirement and much more, and find out everything you want to know about the services and support available for senior Territorians:
What’s being talked about at Seniors Expo 2019?
Almost everything you can think of — here are some of the topics you can cover during the day:
• Aged Care — aged care assessment and packages, home support, palliative care, aged care services and supports.
• Health — Help and services for: continence, asthma, chiropractic issues, dementia, cancer screenings and support groups, mobility aids, Parkinson’s, assistive technologies and more.
• Advocacy — Legal and advocacy services, retirement living, consumer advice and rights, complaints commission about government services, health, disability and aged care services, equal rights and opportunities, talk to local representatives (elected and nonelected).
• Finance — Banking, superannuation and financial planning.
• Retirement — Retirement planning and living (finance and accommodation, lifestyle and more).
• Retail — Variety of products to look at, browse or buy including mobility supports, assistive technologies, books, jewellery, funerals, electricity and artworks .
• Fitness — Nutritional advice and recipes, have-a-go table tennis, Tai Chi and seated aerobics, plus aquatic program information and water safety messages, plus dance demonstrations from local contemporary dance and line dancing groups.
• Education — Digital literacy, fraud and scam awareness, historical research and crime prevention (vehicle, personal, home and handbags).
• Entertainment — Travel and movies, plus red hatting, friendship groups, craft and hobbies and more.
• Community — Council services, leisure activities, local seniors’, social, activity, health and wellness groups. What else? Be there for …. a chance to win $1000 travel voucher from Flight Centre, free finger prick cholesterol tests, free blood glucose level sugar tests, free blood pressure checks, free neurostructural health screening, free minute neck and shoulder massages, free energy ball samples, opportunity to purchase discount books, jewellery and DVDs, displays of aviation history, art, quilting, wood turning, crochet, sewing and knitting, have a free game of table tennis, free ‘do not knock’ stickers, enter a raffle and pick up free promotional giveaways from many of our stallholders. PLUS, the opportunity to try tai chi, seated aerobics and table tennis.