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 ...

Support from family is often important to older migrants residing in ‘foreign lands’. This is especially so in later-life widowhood, where older migrants find themselves alone, without their spouses. This article is based on research with older, widowed Greek migrants in ...

Salutogenic design is a buzz phrase in the aged care space, but do we really know what it is? More commonly known as dementia-friendly design, it is a catch-all term easily described as design that makes life better for those with dementia. The ...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.” – Lord Byron Words are something we use every day without much thought. But language and the ...

“There’s just so many different intersecting touchpoints… it’s just a lovely sense of community,” beams Deborah Key, chief executive of Bankstown City Aged Care. Key speaks in soft, quick bursts; it’s almost as if she can’t hold in her pride ...

“Who am I?” Dr John Roth posed rhetorically as he spoke to the National Dementia Conference. John is a father, grandfather, husband and friend, and was a surgeon for 40 years before his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2015. He loved his ...

“Eleanor Rigby died in a church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came.” That is the story of lonely people according to The Beatles and was inspired, in part, by the old women Paul McCartney encountered on a ...