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
Continue reading »How a homeless blind dog named Benji transformed a Catholic aged care home | The Border Mail
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
Continue reading »How to Do What You Love
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
Continue reading »A sick world: More than 95% of us are ill – Health & Wellbeing
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
Continue reading »2014 Annual Report – LeadingAge
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
Continue reading »Silver economy: tapping into the modern older consumer – Australian Ageing Agenda
via www.australianageingagenda.com.au Tapping into the silver economy makes sense on so many levels. #ageing #health #elders #ehealth
Continue reading »Einstein’s God: Krista Tippett and Theoretical Cosmologist Janna Levin on Free Will, Science, and the Human Spirit | Brain Pickings
“How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at… Science and religion… ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither could alone.” Seven decades after a little girl asked Einstein whether scientists pray, Peabody Award-winning journalist Krista Tippett began interviewing some of the world’s most remarkable scientists, philosophers, and
Continue reading »Campaign needed for aged care standards | REDFLAG
Federal government funding changes have abolished the distinction between high care and low care nursing home residents. NSW is currently the only Australian state with legislation requiring that nursing homes with high care residents have a registered nurse (division 1) on site 24 hours a day. Scrapping the demarcation between high and low care residents
Continue reading »This stunning discovery about the brain will have scientists rewriting textbooks – AOL.com
Antoine Louveau was looking through his microscope at thin membranes that protect the brain, when he saw something that absolutely shouldn't be there: a lymphatic vessel. The lymphatic system is like the circulatory system but, instead of blood, it carries lymph — a clear liquid that ferries immune cells and rids the body of toxins
Continue reading »Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning | Brain Pickings
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” Celebrated Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, born on March 26, 1905, remains best-known for his indispensable 1946 psychological memoir Man’s Search for Meaning (public
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