Niska Robotic Ice Cream Bar, Melbourne, where social and service bots work the flavours. Photo: SBS Russian In Federation Square, Melbourne, you can have your ice cream scooped by a robot at Niska Robotic Ice Cream Bar. In other bars around the world, robotic arms are being trialled as bartenders. You might not [...]
People 18-64 years who are not eligible for low-level support via the NDIS can apply for ‘SASH’ support packages through NSW Health’s ComPacks program.Safe And Supported at Home packages, called SASH for short, support people with functional impairments to live independently and safely at home. People with mental health issues, chronic or degenerative illness or [...]
While everyone’s disrupted by the changes the virus has wrought, older Australians are not the most challenged, according to the first report of a multi-stage survey by the Global Centre for Modern Ageing (GCMA). The Adelaide-based GCMA is a not-for-profit which aims to improve lives of older people. It offers research, advocacy and ‘living [...]
Social distancing requirements have not stopped our essential services which are proceeding as usual – with a little extra space. Distancing modifications make services such as shopping, linen and meals deliveries ‘contactless’ – for the protection of both client and delivering volunteer or SCS staff. Speaking of modifications, our home modifications and maintenance (HMM) team [...]
Sydney Community Services has sadly and gratefully farewelled a highly respected and much-loved key staff member – our Nursing Service co-manager, Michele Neil. In six years with SCS, Michele built up a nursing team and community nursing service for the north shore which won accolades not only from clients but from GPs and managers in [...]
Jill McAtamney is a volunteer for young and old. She now visits seniors as part of Sydney Community Services’ In-home Visiting Program. When she first came to Sydney from Queensland in 2000 as a teacher, she had thoughts of retiring or at least working less and doing something new she’d always wanted to do – [...]
Nursing Team Manager, Michelle Neill Our nurses and personal care workers were run off their feet with a flurry of new patients discharged from hospital at the onset of the restrictions around corona virus. Then things quietened down. Our Nursing Team Manager, Michele Neil, believes numbers of doctors’ appointments and pathology tests have gone [...]
As at midnight on Monday April 6, it’s illegal for people in NSW to leave home unless it’s for the right handful of reasons (announced end of March but being refined in daily practice this week). There's still some confusion about whether you can go out with your family or people in your household [...]
Katie shows off her artwork at top left, while Manda Zhong, top centre, emcee the virtual Chatswood Social Club get-together We hate to disappoint but the latest restrictions to contain Covid 19 virus have meant our disability groups were postponed. So this week, after dabbling with technology, we launched our first ‘virtual’ group [...]
With a little help from our friends, aka fantastic volunteers, donors and staff – plus new safety protocols – we’ve been able to keep running our essential services of in-home nursing, meals and general support for vulnerable people, seniors and people with disabilities. This week we’re even offering virtual activities for a couple of groups [...]
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