Vale Philippa Campbell

We lost our beautiful Philippa Campbell on Friday night at 5.52pm. Philippa's death leaves a big hole in the revolution and a big hole in my heart. She was my colleague and my mate. I loved her very much and admired her even more than that. Philippa was passionate about older people, she set the benchmark high and was unwavering in her determination to build respect for older people. She was also a straight shooter who called it like it was. She would often say: we  have  to do better than this.... and she was right, we do need to do better. That's what I loved about her - she saw inequality and she called it. She saw ageism and she called it. She saw a service gap and she called it. That was her gift to us - to hold up a mirror and ask us to do better. 

Philippa worked in older person's advocacy for the last decade or so, and until late last year she was the CEO of Elder Rights Advocacy in Victoria. The photo above shows Philippa (second from right) and her colleague Cassie at the launch of our Kinfolk project to support older TGD people. Philippa's legacy will continue at Elder Right's Advocacy with CEO Debra Nicholl sharing Philippa's passion for respect and the empowerment of older people. Philippa's legacy will also continue with us at Celebrate Ageing - we have plans to honour her ethos and will announce those soon. Vale Philippa.
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Written by
Dr Catherine Barrett, Director of Celebrate Ageing