Kilkivan and Goomeri Focus Group Themes
Access to healthcare services and support
Healthy Ageing Behaviours
Community Connections
Inter-generational Interactions
Positive Mindset/Attitudes
Geographic Limitation
Long travel times to healthcare services
Transportation dependency
Long wait times to see healthcare professionals
Accessing Aged Care Packages
Complex logistical systems
High cost of medical devices
Limited support workers in the area
Dementia Resources
Dedicated dementia experts in the community
Personal dementia experiences
Lack of understanding about dementia: what it is, diagnosis, causes
Healthy Diets
Living in the present moment
Staying away from negativity
Growing and eating own food
Delay in personal health
Desire to age in place
Social and Community connections
Home
Sustaining community connections
Community-led initiatives
Partnerships with universities and national organisations
Connecting with the disconnected - reaching isolated community members
Educating younger generations about healthy lifestyle
Early habit formation/Still able to change
Enjoy old age/retirement
Dementia is not an "old person's" disease
Early on-set dementia
Sense of usefulness
Passing on teaching from parents
Make dementia digestible
Volunteering
"whole day thing"
"travelling takes more time than the visits"
"..it's the process. It's so degrading and depressing. It almost puts a negative effect on your health"
"...a lot of it is just natural, instinctive thing that have been taught to you as you've been growing up."
"...I've found that not actually choosing who I'm going to be mixing with but keeping away from the negative people...[positive attitudes] it's something you can't give it to others, you have to take it for yourself."
"...you've got to have the feeling that you've got a reason to get up in the morning and go do something, whether it's something in the garden, whether you're volunteering, taking people to buy a washing or whatever. It's getting you out and about and getting you up to do something."
"It's the same group that goes for all the different things, it's virtually the same group."
"... got a very strong attachment to this area...so it's important to [them] to not just be able to do what you want, but also be able to do it in the place [you want]."
"...being able to [age healthy] in your own space, where you want to do it."
"we've got to educate these young ones, that smoking and drinking to excess, and all this sort of thing, is going to, you're going to pay for it down the line, and you're not going to enjoy your retirement."