September is Dementia Awareness month yet Dementia Australia’s packed calendar of informative and supportive events runs all year - for the person diagnosed and their carers, families and friends. The webinars below are all online and some are repeated at later dates. Sessions which are not live can be watched later. You can register for [...]
If you’re missing out on some of your regular habits and friendly connections - including SCS social events - while the virus is around, you might feel a little lonely or uncertain about things. Many experts advise that the way to survive and thrive amid the evolving rules is to create a routine to shape [...]
‘Telling your stories of COVID-19’ is a Lane Cove Council project encouraging people to share their experiences of COVID-19 - its challenges and restrictions, what you did or missed during ‘lockdown’, negatives and positive silver linings, or any differences it made to your thinking. You don’t have to be a poet like Robin Ford who [...]
When we welcome you back, we’ll be proudly wearing a Covid-safe ‘badge’. This graphic badge is awarded by the NSW Government to organisations and businesses whose staff and volunteers have completed training, added precautions and modified practices to be as Covid-safe as possible. We’ve undertaken many changes so as to be ready to resume more [...]
Born in the year the Great Depression hit, Catherine Woods had experienced crises and wars before the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. She recalls her family being put out of their farm, an orange orchard, when she was a child because no-one had enough money to buy the fruit her father grew. “None of us [...]
Yet another reason to lose weight!! Managing your weight to keep your Body Mass Index (BMI) within ‘normal’ range is likely to help reduce your later risk of dementia - and this could be even more relevant for women. Results from a new study out of University College London (UCL) associate obesity in late adulthood [...]
Clients at Hunters Hill Community Hub chat with Member for Lane Cove, Anthony Roberts, in the Hub's courtyard when it reopened after refurbishment mid-2019. Now that a long list of Covid-safe precautions is in daily practice, Sydney Community Services’ group social supports for seniors and people with a disability are running again, [...]
University of NSW’s Ageing Futures Institute (AFI) is a leader in research into ageing which aims to drive quality in outcomes for individuals and society as a whole through better responses to challenges and opportunities in ageing. The Institute has compiled a series of resources and tips for our somewhat restricted lives that you can [...]
Since the covid cloud landed in March, Jill Greene has been missing family, friends and Thursday afternoon bridge games at Sydney Community Services in Lane Cove. She’s still appreciating the SCS fresh linen service that she’s relied on for seven years, now delivered to her independent living unit at St Peter’s Green, Lane Cove North. [...]
A simple new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, years in the making, is on its way to Australia via the Federal Government’s Australian Dementia Network or ADnet, a collaboration of 18 academic and clinical partners and philanthropists. The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, led the development of the new blood test which measures the protein ‘tau’, [...]
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