“Maureen, hurry up!” Michaela urges her friend. Aiden does much the same with his older buddy Eric, who has sat down to rest. “We are coming last,” he tells Eric as he pleads for him to carry on. This scene ...

At one point in time you can imagine everyone had a garden that they relied on for food. You might be old enough to remember that, or you might do that still, but having a garden is becoming all too ...

I like to do it in the shower. Or while I’m driving the car. Even around the house while I’m doing chores or standing on a table in the pub. These are a few places I like to sing. Friends and family ...

It’s well known that exercise is a key element to living a long and healthy life. According to a recent Harvard study, it can help with cholesterol levels, reduce the chances of having a heart attack, ward off dementia and ...

Before the nation’s eyes turned to the aged care sector with the royal commission, South Australia had its own reckoning. The Oakden scandal and subsequent inquiry seems to have set off a concerted effort to lift the standards of aged ...

‘Trust. Noun. The reliance on the integrity, justice, etc of a person, or on some quality or attribute of a thing; confidence.’ That is the first definition the Macquarie Dictionary has for the word trust. There are another 22 definitions or ...

Lager. Ale. Stout. Or even a cheeky shandy. No matter the order, it was happy hour at Feros Care’s Wommin Bay village when a troupe of brewery workers donated their time and their beer to lift spirits at the aged ...

Two years ago, the Kalyra Woodcroft aged care facility in Adelaide was giving another one of its regular site tours. Neither the guide, Terry Wilby, Kalyra’s Director of Care, nor the people being led through the grounds had any idea ...