Ita Buttrose – Dementia Action Week, Dementia Australia
HelloCare spoke to Ita Buttrose, AC OBE a member of the Dementia Australia’s panel, about how to tackle discrimination against people who are living with dementia.
Love Ita interview – she is an amazing woman. However WHY is the interviewer looking at her phone while speaking to Ita Buttrose? It was very rude and distracting. Gosh how embarrassing – it looked awful and goes against every polite axiom we have in modern society!
The benefits of gardening and being in nature have long been intuitively understood. More recently, researchers have brought scientific rigour to what many felt instinctively: that being outside and involved in the growing of plants is good for us, both in body and mind. In the New South Wales Hunter Valley, a dementia day...
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Australia has more than 2.8 million unpaid carers whose combined efforts equate to more than $60 billion a year (if this was provided by paid carers). These 2.8 million silent heroes play an integral role in providing informal care and take the pressure off an already stretched aged and community care industry. Jennene Buckley, CEO...
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Last week HelloCare caught up with renowned dementia trainer, Teepa Snow, who, with her usual positivity and insight, shared some of her advice about how we can improve the way we care for people who are living with dementia. Ms Snow said society is becoming more tuned in to the needs of people living with...
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Love Ita interview – she is an amazing woman. However WHY is the interviewer looking at her phone while speaking to Ita Buttrose? It was very rude and distracting. Gosh how embarrassing – it looked awful and goes against every polite axiom we have in modern society!