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An elderly woman has been knocked to the ground and robbed in a frightening altercation with two men at her home at the Woodcroft Caravan Park in South Australia.  Eva Donlon, 82, appears to have been deliberately targeted, as two intruders posing as tradesman held the grandmother down and put a hand over her mouth... Read More

  The other day I was reading (in The Sun-Herald’s Sunday Life) a moving extract from a book – Special – by Melanie Dimmitt, a mother of a sweet young child with cerebral palsy. At the end of that extract, she quotes an observation by Nia Wyn, another mother of a child with the same... Read More

A major concern for many elderly patients and their loved ones is when they need some form of surgery. Regardless of the type of surgery needed it’s often something that causes significant anxiety and stress for all involved.  Often worrying about how quickly they will recover and if they will be able to return to how they were before the surgery. One research... Read More