What is it like to live with hearing loss? Many older people go years before they do anything about their hearing. Today we talk with audiologist Marguerite and her client Rosalie.
Texture-modified foods are essential to the health and wellbeing of aged care residents, and with a little bit of effort - they can be just as enticing as dishes in their original forms.
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I’ve spoken previously about the unacceptable number of falls suffered by elderly Australians. Studies at home and overseas have shown that as many as one in three people over the age of sixty–five in the community fall very year. One in ten of these fall multiple times and nearly a third of the falls are...
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When taking into account the number of challenges that the average person will encounter in their lifetime, it’s easy to see how some of the most reliable aspects of day-to-day life can begin to be taken for granted. Chewing and swallowing are such a rhythmic and repetitive function for the average person that the act...
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