Ageing

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Aged Care, Opinion
Friday essay: homesick for ourselves – the hidden grief of ageing
Carol Lefevre Sep 15, 2023

Anyone parenting young children will be familiar with the phrase “there’ll be tears before bedtime”. But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems

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Research
New study reveals depression can accelerate ageing in older adults
Ritchelle Drilon Mar 23, 2023

Older adults with depression age faster than their peers, with evidence of accelerated biological ageing, poor physical and brain health and worse cardiovascular health. UConn

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Aged Care, Learning - Topics
Attitudes to ageing: an overview of Australian perspectives of health support systems for the older person
Neil Jeyasingam Mar 24, 2021

Objectives: Older adults utilize health care systems to a higher frequency than younger groups, and are more vulnerable to system bias regarding ageing and expectations

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Aged Care, Healthcare News
The Decade of Healthy Ageing: a new UN-wide initiative
Lourdes Antenor Dec 15, 2020

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing. “Today’s announcement of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing sends a clear signal

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Aged Care, Aged Care, Healthcare, Learning - Topics
What’s the difference between a care home and a nursing home?
Healthcare Channel Jun 18, 2020

Families longing the emotional stress of placing a spouse or relative into care, often tell us that they find a number of the terminology surrounding

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Healthcare, Hospitals/Clinics, HR/People/Culture, Learning - Function, Learning - Topics
Career Paths in Nursing: So you want to be a nurse? Here are your options
Healthcare Channel May 22, 2020

Nursing is as much of a personal mission as it is a career path. More so than any other reason, many become interested in this

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Aged Care, Aged Care, COVID-19, Learning - Topics
Coronavirus: Can Vitamin D reduce complications among ageing patients?
Healthcare Channel May 18, 2020

Vitamin D appears to help reduce serious complications among coronavirus patients, according to a study. “Whereas there are currently no results from randomised controlled trials to conclusively prove that vitamin

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Business Development, COVID-19, Healthcare, Hospitals, Learning - Function
On Leadership: Life working as Chief Medical Officer
Healthcare Channel May 14, 2020

“The uncertainty is the hardest part of it all. Most healthcare administrators are used to uncertainty given we never know what patient will walk through

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Healthcare, Learning - Function, Operations
LEARN: Difference between a care coordinator from a case manager
Healthcare Channel May 11, 2020

The care coordinator is a guide who is accountable for overseeing the community-level team process and takes the lead on cross-system/agency collaboration, pooled resources, collective

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Aged Care, Aged Care, COVID-19, Healthcare, Learning - Topics
ANZAC Day 2020: Watch Fairfield’s video commemoration service for our heroes
Jacki Downs May 7, 2020

As Australia continues to monitor the COVID-19 virus challenge, precautions such as social distancing and the rules around gatherings and travel have made our annual

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Aged Care, COVID-19, Healthcare
Leading medical epidemiologist warns of major public health risk in excluding groups from COVID-19 response
Healthcare Channel May 6, 2020

A leading medical epidemiologist has today warned of the public health risks if the Australian government does not extend its COVID-19 response measures to include vulnerable

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COVID-19, Healthcare, Hospitals
No plan for daily coronavirus testing of aged-care staff across Australia, minister says
Healthcare Channel May 5, 2020

Richard Colbeck says staff can get tested when ‘they suspect they have symptoms or just for peace of mind’ The government has no plans to

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2024 All rights reserved. © Healthcare channel powered by Akolade.