Tag: aged care
Art therapy provides enrichment to Greenmount seniors
An art exhibition organised by residents at a popular aged care home in the Shire of Mundaring is showcasing a diverse range of experimental...
Meet Eamon – Rocky Bay’s Equipment Manager supplying affordable options for...
Eamon and his team are based at Rocky Bay’s Cockburn Central hub, and specialise in equipment maintenance, hire and sales, equipment sterilisation, and Posture...
Australia should embrace ageing
Maggie Beer at 76 is a flag-bearer for Australia’s seniors, pouring-in her skills, time and money for aged care. The multi-gonged television favourite arrives in...
An enormous effort required to reform aged care sector to deliver...
Australia is on the brink of aged care reform that is breathtaking. Following 20 probes, inquiries and royal commissions over 20 years, Canberra has levers...
Virtual reality brings new experiences to people in residential aged care
People in aged care have little chance to get out and see the wider world, but with virtual reality (VR) they can experience the...
An interesting look at the future of aged care which may...
Aged care is labour intensive; wages are often the largest single expense of aged care operators. Robots might take off some of the workload,...
Ensuring older generations will be well cared for
Australian seniors are on the cusp of a new era of unprecedented attention, care and big-time funding. Years of disgrace, maltreatment and abuse have...
Interesting survey response to what Australians think about ageing
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety engaged Roy Morgan to conduct a national opinion survey of 10,000 Australian adults. The survey asked...
Helping older people cope with pets and keeping them with their...
POOPS (Pets for Older People) is all about keeping pets with their people. Pets provide older singles in particular with companionship, a purpose in...
Joint research project to bring pet robot ‘puppy’ to aged care...
Aged care residents in Perth will soon welcome MiRo, a robotic pet or ‘petoid,’ as part of a research project collaboration between Curtin University,...
