Jennie Cox has always jumped on any chance to learn. At 81, she’s just completed a degree at Murdoch University and has already enrolled for a postgraduate course. A former nurse from Perth, Cox studied for a nursing degree as ...
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Lifeview residents are building community, one zucchini at a time
Stephen Milstead has a bit of a green thumb. Actually, he has one of those thumbs that likes to grow, harvest, preserve and generally make things from scratch and eat them. Milstead loves the feeling of satisfaction that comes with ...
More »Tracey Spicer announced as new ambassador for provider Your Side
Your Side, a support service for older people, and people living with disability or mental health and their carers, recently announced award winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Spicer AM as its new ambassador. Aged Care Insite spoke with Spicer to ...
More »The Aged Care Royal Commission report: what the Empire wants us to do and what we should really do
We asked a range of people, “Will aged care be way better in 10 years after the huge effort and expense the Royal Commission report is asking of all Australians?” Why won’t anyone say yes? Sure, they like bits of ...
More »Being a female CEO in 2021: opinion
The 2019/20 Australian Bureau of Statistics found that almost 80 per cent of workers in aged care were female, with over 40 per cent of CEO positions being occupied by women – the highest workforce percentage in Australia. Nationally, the ...
More »Aussie CEO makes WHO list of nurse and midwife leaders
Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization ...
More »‘The Nurse’ podcast sheds light on alleged sexual abuse and mismanagement in Tasmania’s health system
James Griffin was a paediatric nurse in Tasmania. A family man, he was well liked, a bit un-PC for some, but a ‘moral citizen’ some said. But Jim was allegedly hiding a dark and horrific secret that when revealed would ...
More »Aussie nurse featured in Brisbane Portrait Prize
Helen Zahos is stumped. It’s early on a Monday and we’re both a bit slow to start. Helen has been up late the night before on Zoom meetings with people in Europe and I have no good excuse other than, ...
More »Dick Johnson is Dead: Netflix tackles death and dementia
The premise to Netflix’s new film, Dick Johnson is Dead, is simple. Documentarian Kirsten Johnson’s father, the eponymous Dick, is diagnosed with dementia, so to work through the grief, loss and impending death, she decides to chronicle the last few ...
More »‘It’s a wild diease’: Long COVID the next pandemic challenge
COVID-19 is about nine months old, we think, and with each passing month we learn more about what this new coronavirus does to the body. Long COVID is a term being used for one set of symptoms researchers are observing ...
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