Peninsula Villages is a residential aged care community in Brisbane Water, on New South Wales’ Central Coast, an hour north of Sydney. CEO Shane Neaves and his team at Peninsula Villages are currently working with Brisbane Water Secondary College to ...
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Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s Disease ...
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Dr Patricia Weerakoon is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Medical School, and is an expert in sex education, research and therapy. To mark Valentine’s Day on Tuesday 14 February 2017, Aged Care Insite spoke with Weerakoon about ...
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February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. To mark the occasion, there will be a function at Parliament House on Wednesday 8 February 2017 attended by government figures, and on Wednesday 22 February 2017, Australians around the country will host an ...
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The Macular Disease Foundation of Australia (MDFA) today released a new report into the longterm funding requirements for aids and technologies to assist the 100,000 older Australians with vision loss or blindness. The report, entitled Low Vision, Quality of Life and ...
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Dr Kim Chilman-Blair is the founder of Medicine X. Medicine X uses colourful and entertaining storytelling to demystifying illnesses and medical conditions that might be confusing patients after a diagnosis. The above and below image are examples of how Medicine ...
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People living with dementia are now able to explore a virtual world, filled with dragonflies, butterflies and ducks, through a new screen-projected, interactive game. Called The Virtual Forest, the Alzheimer’s Australia Vic game aims to bring joy to the lives ...
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BallyCara chief executive Marcus Riley will be addressing members of the United Nations in New York City to advocate for a UN Convention for the Rights of Older Persons. “Worldwide, the proportion of people aged 60 years and over is ...
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