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NOAH A thriving, healthy community guided by its elders.

Affordable housing, world-class primary health care, psycho-social support, food security and opportunties to generate income for social pensioners living on the grant of R 1890 per month.

Thank you for Ageing Well Together. 💚On 30 September and 1 October, we came together for two days of ideas, connection a...
06/10/2026

Thank you for Ageing Well Together. 💚

On 30 September and 1 October, we came together for two days of ideas, connection and action. Together we asked how we protect dignity and shared humanity as we age, and how we build care that works for older persons and for the people who care for them.

To our co-hosts GERATEC and Project Scaffold, and to the OlderPersons Care Alliance Western Cape (OPCA-WC) for partnering with us: thank you. Working side by side is how a conference like this becomes more than the sum of its parts.

To our speakers, panellists and facilitators, thank you for sharing your knowledge, your research and your honesty. To our Alliance Members, and to everyone from across the ageing sector who joined us, whether you are a researcher, a care provider, a government colleague or someone working in your community: thank you for giving your time and your thinking to this.

A special thank you to the older persons and community members who shared their own journeys. Hearing from you, and not just about you, shaped everything else we discussed.

To those who stopped by our Selling Seconds stall: thank you for such generous support. It helps older persons keep contributing and helps NOAH keep going.

Finally, thank you to the people behind the scenes who kept the two days running smoothly: the NOAH team and photographer.

The Ageing Well Together conversation doesn't end here. We hope you will carry it back to your homes, centres and communities, and we look forward to continuing it with you. 📸

Thank you for supporting Selling Seconds at Ageing Well Together. 💚We were delighted to have a Selling Seconds stall at ...
06/10/2026

Thank you for supporting Selling Seconds at Ageing Well Together. 💚

We were delighted to have a Selling Seconds stall at the conference, and the support from delegates, speakers and partners was so generous. Thank you to everyone who stopped to browse, buy and talk to our team about what we do.

Selling Seconds is more than a shop. It is staffed by NOAH elders who earn additional income, and our four stores raise 25% of the funds NOAH needs each year. When you buy from us, you help older persons keep contributing and help NOAH keep growing.

If you didn't get to the stall, you can visit us in store:

Woodstock: 19 Regent Street
Khayelitsha: 69 Jama Crescent
Harare: 40 Phata Close
Athlone: 26 Voel Street

We are open 9am to 3pm on weekdays and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays.

Healthy ageing, trauma and well-being. 🌿A brilliant discussion on strengthening care services for older persons. Our las...
06/10/2026

Healthy ageing, trauma and well-being. 🌿
A brilliant discussion on strengthening care services for older persons. Our last speaker session of the conference was an important one, exploring healthy ageing, trauma and well-being, with contributions from Older Persons Care Alliance - Western Cape members NOAH and , alongside other expert contributors.
Ide-Marie Venter from GERATEC began the discussion with a look at how nutrition affects brain health, noting the long-term impact of our diets. Dr Marguerite Loftus of Dietitians emphasised this point, highlighting the connection between nutrition, muscle health and healthy ageing.
Dr Holger Wellman spoke about polypharmacy, exploring appropriate versus inappropriate medication use and the importance of managing multiple medications thoughtfully, while considering potential treatment effects.
Roodt and Noma Mbusi from NOAH spoke about trauma-informed care, exploring how we can approach people with different life stories and experiences with greater understanding and sensitivity, including the impact of neglect and trauma in ageing.
Dr Kirti Ranchod of facilitated.
Thank you to all contributors for sharing their expertise and helping us continue the conversation around person-centred, holistic care for older people. 💚

Workforce, care and human relationships. 🤝Our fifth focal area on Day 2 of Ageing Well Together asked: how do we build a...
06/10/2026

Workforce, care and human relationships. 🤝
Our fifth focal area on Day 2 of Ageing Well Together asked: how do we build a skilled, recognised and emotionally sustainable care workforce without reducing care to a series of tasks?
The quality of elder care rests on the people who provide it. This session focused on making sure careworkers are properly trained, registered and supported, so that older persons are cared for by people who are skilled, recognised and looked after themselves. Earlier in the day, the Wandawazi Passport had introduced the idea of a portable record of care workers' experience and evidence.
Our speakers were Dr Ruth Levin-Vorster, a relationship specialist, Femada Shaman of , and Jane Linley-Thomas and Dr Paul Bushell of Poppy.
The session was facilitated by Willem Myburgh of .
Thank you to everyone who spoke up for the people who do this work every day.

Upskilling and postgraduate development in gerontology nursing. 🩺On Day 2 of Ageing Well Together, our session on innova...
06/10/2026

Upskilling and postgraduate development in gerontology nursing. 🩺
On Day 2 of Ageing Well Together, our session on innovation and sustainable models was followed by a panel on upskilling and postgraduate development in gerontology nursing.
The panel was made up of Dr Gavin Lowrens, Ansie Kirsten, and Older Persons Care Alliance - Western Cape members Elmarie Earle of Head Office: Older Persons Care / Ouer Persone Sorg and Christelle Klopper of . Prof Rayne Stroebel of facilitated.
A brilliant discussion on strengthening care services for older persons, and a reminder that good elder care starts with well-trained people. Thank you to everyone on the panel for sharing their time and expertise. 💚

Innovation and sustainable models. 💡On Day 2 of Ageing Well Together, our fourth focal area asked: what viable alternati...
06/10/2026

Innovation and sustainable models. 💡
On Day 2 of Ageing Well Together, our fourth focal area asked: what viable alternatives can South Africa create between unsupported ageing at home and increasingly unaffordable institutional care? It was a valuable session with Older Persons Care Alliance - Western Cape members exploring practical innovation and sustainable models for supporting older persons in communities.
Rob Jones presented Scaffold, exploring how community platforms can strengthen collaboration, discussion and resource-sharing, and the Wandawazi Passport, which aims to create a portable record of care workers' information, experience and evidence, to support safer, more connected care for both caregivers and care recipients.
Prof Elena Moore of the UCT Family Caregiving Programme shared work on mapping elder-care resources in the Overstrand area, highlighting gaps in access to care and the challenges people face in navigating available services and social support.
Victor Southwell of NOAH built on the mapping discussion, exploring the idea of an older persons' hub in communities that could connect existing services, social centres, community partners, caregivers and public services in a more of NOAH built on the mapping discussion, exploring the idea of an older persons' hub in communities that could connect existing services, social centres, community partners, caregivers and public services in a more coordinated way.

Thank you for Day 1 of Ageing Well Together. People from across the ageing sector joined us, including speakers, researc...
04/10/2026

Thank you for Day 1 of Ageing Well Together.

People from across the ageing sector joined us, including speakers, researchers, care providers and community organisations. Alongside them were the older persons who shared their own journeys and it was hearing from them that made the day.
Thank you to our co-hosts GERATEC and Project Scaffold, and to the Older Persons Care Alliance - Western Cape (OPCA-WC) for partnering with us.
Here are some of our favourite moments from Day 1. Day 2 followed on 1 October, with more to share. 📸

Shared humanity conversations. 💚Our third focus area on Day 1 of Ageing Well Together asked: how do we protect dignity, ...
04/10/2026

Shared humanity conversations. 💚
Our third focus area on Day 1 of Ageing Well Together asked: how do we protect dignity, connection and shared humanity when ageing often presents with exclusion, grief, dependency, vulnerability and mortality?
The session opened with James Sleigh of Village. We then heard from NOAH community elders and GAPA community voices, who shared their own journeys and the positive difference their organisations have made to their lives. Community members from Labantu also spoke about their experiences as caregivers for family members, and about the support Ikamva Labantu gives them. Hearing it from them, rather than about them, set the tone for the rest of the session.
A discussion followed, facilitated by Prof Marguerite Schneider of the University of Cape Town, with:
Dr Magdie van Heerden, Horison
Erna Moller,
Michael Wood,

Our thanks go to the community members for their courage and honesty, and to our panel and facilitator for holding such a thoughtful conversation.

Community care in action. 💚The second focus area of Day 1 at Ageing Well Together asked how we enable older persons to r...
04/10/2026

Community care in action. 💚
The second focus area of Day 1 at Ageing Well Together asked how we enable older persons to remain safely supported and connected where they choose to live, when services, families and communities are fragmented or under-resourced.
We heard from Older Persons Care Alliance - Western Cape members NOAH, - Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS and Ikamva Labantu , as well as from Camphill Village and Hello Poppy, who shared their experiences and models of community-centred care.
Our speakers were:
Lulama Sigasana, Ikamva Labantu
James Sleigh, Camphill Village
Vhuwhavo Ramokhondo, GAPA
Jane Linley-Thomas and Dr Paul Bushell,

The NOAH team shared four sides of our work: Bonny Diener on our communal homes, Asiphe Mntuyedwa on the Happiness programme, Delia Bulcraig on the NOAH Clinic and community-based care, and Anton Peters on Social Enterprise.
The session highlighted practical approaches to supporting older people and communities through social clubs, health and psychosocial support, advocacy, income generation, meals, skills development and intergenerational learning, while responding to challenges such as poverty and social isolation.
Thank you to our Alliance Members and guests for sharing their valuable work and showing the power of community-led care and collective action.


Exploring dignity, identity and belonging in later life. 💚Our first focus area on Day 1 of Ageing Well Together asked a ...
04/10/2026

Exploring dignity, identity and belonging in later life. 💚
Our first focus area on Day 1 of Ageing Well Together asked a question that sits at the heart of good care: how do we ensure that increasing support needs do not result in older persons losing agency, purpose, identity and belonging?
Our speakers raised important questions about how we create environments where older people can continue to contribute and take part in the life of their communities.
Lynda Smith of 50 Plus-Skills asked how we build meaningful pathways for people to contribute throughout a longer life.
Jennifer Webster, a disability awareness specialist and the creator of challenged us to consider what projects or products we might plan that could be accessible, drawing on her insight into disability.
Ishreen Davids of asked how we can identify and activate hidden community assets for elder care.
Femada Shaman of explored how partnerships can protect an older person's agency, identity, purpose and belonging, and how they can get in the way of it.
The conversation reminded us that dignity, identity and belonging are not simply outcomes of care. They are the foundation for lives in which older people remain valued, heard and able to contribute.

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