A program is breaking new ground in boosting aged care workers' confidence by training them to communicate and interact with residents more effectively. 'The Little Things' project, a partnership with Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre (FSNLC) and Meaningful Ageing Australia, ...

Every patient is different; whenever one presents a particularly troublesome problem, meeting it with the specified precautions is critical.  The way patients who present special difficulties are managed needs to be individualised, even with all the competing demands on nurses’ time, ...