Monthly Archives: "June 2015"

Friday 26 June, 2015 Planning underway for Allen Bryant residents Plans are being made to ensure the appropriate placement and care of the people displaced from their aged residential care home, Ultimate Care Allen Bryant, due to last week’s flooding. via www.scoop.co.nz

Langer: The essence of effective leadership is mindfulness, which is also the essence of charisma. When you are mindful you are present. When you are present people notice it. When people experience you as mindful they then see you as authentic and trustworthy. We have done lots of studies on this, making people mindful and assessing

via www.youtube.com Science based #mindfulness – when you're mindless you aren't aware that you're mindless unless you become mindful. #ellenlanger #mindful #leadership

The NSW branch of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) has teamed up with healthcare innovation special interest group HealthTech Sydney to hold a joint seminar on the potential for integrated and interoperable wearable technologies in improving patient experience. Being held at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Darlinghurst in advance of HISA NSW's annual

It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It seems

When Lisa Spencer was advised by the Sydney Dogs and Cats Home that the animal she was about to adopt was blind and missing all of his teeth, she reassured the shelter he was heading to a place where he would "fit right in". When Lisa Spencer was advised by the Sydney Dogs and Cats

January 2006 To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as

by Jennifer King The bulk of the world's population is unwell, with just one in 20 healthy during the year, according to a new analysis. But what are we sick with? [Image source: iStockPhoto | eskaylim] via www.abc.net.au A different perspective on what ails us; we have more in common globally. #health #ageing #disease #wellness

Inspire. Serve. Advocate. This is LeadingAge's promise to our members, and the theme of our 2014 Annual Report. HeadlinesWhite House Conference on Aging: July 13, 2015CMS Delays Determinations on the Majority of Proposed Regulatory Waivers for MSSP6 Things to Consider When Rehabbing an Affordable Senior Housing PropertyRobyn Stone Examines the Future of Family Caregiving in

via www.australianageingagenda.com.au Tapping into the silver economy makes sense on so many levels. #ageing #health #elders #ehealth