Throughout his working life in disability and aged care, Mike Rungie has used the Social Role Valorisation (SRV) framework to stay close to the people using services, developing an understanding of whether they enable people to thrive in the ways other citizens do. These repeated insights have led to a very different view of success in aged care, what causes mass service failure, and how to sort out useful responses from optimistic ones, or just plain bad ones.

Mike Rungie currently works with organisations and networks developing scalable strategies that have citizenship and productivity for older people at the centre of what they do. He also sits on a number of boards and committees working at the intersection of good lives and aged care. He has a working background in disability and aged care, most recently as the CEO of ACH Group.

He completed a Churchill Fellowship on “Roles for people in their 70s, 80s, 90s” in 2013, and is a 2018 graduate of the Modern Elder Academy. He studied under Professor Wolfensberger (University of Syracuse), and it is this working knowledge of Social Role Valorisation that forms much of the framework of his writings.

He regularly publishes in Aged Care Insite, and is author of two chapters in “Ageing and the Good Things of Life” (Valor Press, 2020).

Mike can be contacted by clicking here on his email address.