Blogs and Articles
Meet our team – Annette Allen
Originally qualified as a registered nurse in the UK, Annette Allen came to Australia via New Zealand where she specialised in aged care and infection control. She started a family – now four children – [...]
SCS’ views heard at ACSA
SCS' CEO Gill Batt is now a member of the Home Care and Community Advisory Committee of Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA), the peak body representing service providers. This enables Gill to offer valuable [...]
Meet our team – Michele Neil, Nursing Services Manager
When Michele Neil worked with the rapid response team at War Memorial Hospital in Waverley, she became inspired about what nurses could achieve out in the community. The team consisted of nurses, a geriatrician, social [...]
Making a world of difference
Azka Hameed, volunteer gardener Finding happiness in the simple things in life is a personal tenet of Prof. Lea Waters, founding director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at Melbourne University. “One of [...]
More in-home restorative care
There’s been a welcome expansion of a successful, in-home Short-Term Restorative Care program (STRC) in which a multi-disciplinary team from HammondCare works with people who are declining in function. HammondCare’s STRC teams work in north, [...]
Disturbing hearings
This week, public hearings by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety are inquiring into residential aged care, the most disturbing aspect of the sector which provoked the inquiry. Previous hearings in Adelaide [...]
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