Apr/May 2012

 

News:

Calls for changes to visa programs more

Keeping the spiritual flame burning more

Lobby groups search for recruits more

Groups wait and listen after move to ‘one voice’ more

Older workers good value, says age champion more

Push to keep indigenous funding more

Heralding the era of competition more

Fire safety high on the agenda more

Budget ‘leaks’ point to finance reform more

 

Education & Training:

Call for more ageing study in uni courses more

Aged care offers training answers more

 

Management & Finance:

Looking overseas to fill the gaps more

Industry push for slice of federal budget more

 

Building & Refurbishment:

History rubs off on new centre more

 

Nutrition:

Dispelling myths of diabetes and nutrition more

 

Infection Control:

Climate change a threat to health more

 

Woundcare:

Avoiding the pressure points more

 

Palliative Care:

The dignity of the personal story more

 

Technology:

The bush telegraph goes online more

NBN to revolutionise care, industry told more

Banding together for bandwidth more

 

Community Care:

Mother and daughter more

Breaking the mould more

Groups work to stop lonely deaths more

Who are the consumers? more

Tripping over family purse strings more

 

Lifestyle:

Choice and control the key to wellbeing more

Adding life to years, not just years to life more

A laugh a day more

 

Dementia:

Sustaining sexuality in residential care more

 

 

Feb/Mar 2012

 

News:

Politicians supportive of reform, say stakeholders more

Social workers need to exert influence more

Care givers value respite: research more

Pushing for a place at the table more

Palliative care inquiry extended more

Cavities remain in dental hygiene more

Educators spar on complementary medicine more

Push to fill gap in funding more

Push to promote pastoral care more

 

Education & Training:

Escaping loneliness more

Not an optional extra more

 

Management & Finance:

Sector prepares for building rush more

It’s on for young and old more

Grey army to the rescue more

Nurses eager for higher role more

Staff need to mourn, study finds more

National work safety laws start more

Keep the divide between managing and governing more

 

Building & Refurbishment:

Domestic feel better than hotel more

 

Clinical:

Clarity needed in dental campaign more

Dental scheme under spotlight more

 

Pain Management:

Different paths to provide relief more

 

Nutrition:

Good eating can improve healing more

Eating, dementia and the fish tank more

 

Palliative Care:

Life Before Death more

End of life a community affair more

Palliative route avoids unnecessary treatment more

 

Technology:

Healing process captured online more

 

Community Care:

Fair pay now rings true more

 

Opinion:

Hard financial decisions needed now more

Moving from behind closed doors more

 

Lifestyle:

Vertical gardens take root more