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Welcome to the practitioner network on ageing (PNOA) |
This website and its range of practice areas and other networks is intended to connect people, practices and places to ensure that good practice is recognised and shared. It also can be a focus to spot gaps in practice areas and bring together the whole system of various practices which need to be linked and co-ordinated to provide information for older people and the public who access this site. It may be a means to break down the barriers to communicating good practice. On this site you can share experiences of good and effective practice as well as be alerted to practices which don’t work to the benefit of older people. We want this to be a place where clinicians, managers, leaders, innovators, board and trustee members, policy makers, academics and educators as well as these practitioners customers, communities and older people can all contribute to – and learn from – new thinking and new evidence-based and values-based practice |
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PRACTITIONER NETWORK ON AGEING LAUNCH EVENT IN WALES
On March 18th 2006 in Cardiff the Practitioner Network on Ageing (PNOA) was formally launched in a celebratory event. It was attended by various voluntary housing and care organisations as well as private sector groups and older people organisations.
Roy Noble OBE – BBC Wales personality was the guest speaker and the event was formally introduced by Lorraine Morgan, the Honorary Founder Chair of PNOA.
PNOA, in its embryonic form, was set up in 2000 as a result of the concern expressed by a nurse who had reported some elder abuse at her workplace and wanted to try and improve how good practice could be shared better. PNOA now includes any practitioners who work with older people.
It is now a new and unique UK Network, begun and based in Wales, of like minded people who have begun the process to develop a resource, a ‘one stop shop’ of information, networking and good practice examples. PNOA is not a lobbying group – but set up to raise awareness through sharing and developing good practice in all areas of interest and work with Older People.
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The Network is an independent, non-governmental, non-for-profit association of members. The words "practitioner" and "practice" in this description shall be taken to refer to all persons who work with older people as their key focus and/or have specialist interest in working with older people and/or the study of ageing and gerontology..
The term ‘work’ would include research, practice, partnership, management, advocacy, support and advice. The term ‘gerontology’ is the applied to the study of ageing. The organisation will actively encourage older practitioners to join the Network.
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