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.
An alliance of aged care consumer and carer groups have outlined a shared vision for aged care that puts the “human needs” of older Australians at its centre. It comes at a time when Australia’s aged care system is under intense scrutiny and pressure, and its failures have been exposed by COVID-19 and the Aged...
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It’s a general consensus that banks and financial institutions have a lot to lose financially from being hacked into, however people tend to forget how much Personal Identifiable Information (PII) the health industry holds and just how valuable that is! Think of all the PII a hospital or clinic holds on its staff, patients (past...
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare advise that 1 in 5 seniors are obese and that this number has trebled over the last 20 years. A recent report out of the US highlighted the increasing number of elderly clients in aged care who were morbidly obese and as a result were in need of...
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