What is it Like to Live with Hearing Loss?

When a loved one is ageing and their care needs increase beyond what their family, friends and home care providers can offer, their alternative is to move into a residential aged care facility. Residential aged care facilities can offer 24-hour care with staff onsite to support people with complex or high care needs. We are... Read More

Currently, I’m at that stage in editing my book about ageing where I’m reviewing what I wrote about managing the increased likelihood of problems with vision and hearing as we get into old age. Blindness was something that preoccupied me for some time as an eight-year-old, when it was finally worked out that the reason... Read More

It used to be, especially in home care, that a few people with a kind and caring nature could sustain a valuable service to the senior citizens of their local area. We owe a debt of gratitude to those community-spirited people who’ve been involved. There are still many services overseen by volunteer management committees or... Read More