Monthly Archives: "May 2015"

Opal managing director Gary Barnier said the two groups shared a philosophy about "a continuum of care" that would give older residents the option to move into higher care "without having to relocate away from their village, community, family and friends". The partnership could work in several ways. Residents in the village could recuperate in the aged-care

How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925

http://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/2015/05/29/call-for-affordable-housing-as-homeless-older-women-issue-escalates/ A national women’s alliance says the Federal Government should keep negative gearing but amend the controversial tax arrangement so that it stimulates supply of age-friendly new builds to support the growing number of homeless older women.

NEW YORK, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — According to the UN standard (the elderly people aged over 60 accounting for 10% of total population or the elderly people over age 65 occupying 7% of total population in one region), China entered the aging society early in 1999. By the end of 2014, China's population aged

Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) has welcomed the announcement in the Federal Budget that aged care accreditation will be privatised and believes quality, consumer choice and innovation will flourish as a result. “The number of Australians relying on age services is growing by the day. Change is needed urgently but regulation has been standing in

Life only consists of moments. Yet when we're young and starting our careers, we carve up the experience pie very differently — in very large pieces. We assume that after we reach this or that milestone or complete this or that project, we'll finally be happy and able to relax. But it never seems to

Do you believe you can think yourself well, changing the very structure of your brain over time through rigorous training? Norman Doidge does… Extract: A man walks off his Parkinson’s symptoms Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity: 'How can so-called ethereal thought change so-called material strtucture? The subject is filled with wonder.' Photograph: Jaime Hodge When you

New or revised incentives for general practitioners to use the PCEHR are likely under a three-pronged strategy developed by the Department of Health (DoH) to improve the system over the next three to four years. The federal government announced earlier this month that it would continue to support the PCEHR to the tune of $485.1

At some point in their careers, most leaders have either consciously — or, more likely, unwittingly — based (or justified) their approach to motivation on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow’s idea that people are motivated by satisfying lower-level needs such as food, water, shelter, and security, before they can move on to being motivated by higher-level

Posted May 22, 2015 18:31:18 Photo: Stroke victim Margot Harker is relieved her case will be reviewed. (ABC) Related Story: Changes to seniors' at-home care packages to see thousands worse offRelated Story: Concerns growing over dramatic changes in home care for seniors Map: Australia Seniors set to lose out when their federally funded in-home care