The Inside Aged Care Project is a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) research project funded by the Australian Research Council and working with Industry Partner BallyCara.

Contact Chief Investigator:

Associate Professor Evonne Miller

e.miller@qut.edu.au

See further information about the project on our website:

insideagedcareproject.wordpress.com/

Photos on this Flickr have been taken by residents and PhD student Tricia King to show what everyday life is like for aged care and retirement village residents. These images are displayed at the public exhibition - Living in Aged Care: a photographic exhibition of laughter, loss and leisure. The exhibition is showing at the State Library of Queensland from 23 January to 28 February 2017.

In this exhibition, through photographs and poetry, twenty older Australians share their experiences of life in one retirement and residential aged care community—BallyCara in Brisbane.

This diverse range of images, and residents’ fascinating stories, provides rare and intimate insight into the often-private world of aged care. As well as highlighting cherished interactions and activities with friends, family and staff [laughter and leisure], the photographs poignantly capture the changes, challenges and resilience of older age—the increasing awareness of life’s fragility and resident’s experience of illness, dying and grief [loss].

All photographs from the exhibition are in our Flickr feed. We encourage you to freely use the images, through a Creative Commons license