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 [...]
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 [...]
Movement monitoring looks set to boost seniors' safety in their own homes, thanks to local innovation. Ericom will partner with residential aged-care providers to trial its movement monitoring and messaging system in the homes of 50 seniors throughout this year. The trial hopes to show that remote monitoring of seniors’ daily routines can help prevent [...]
An extension is handy for all of us: the opt-out period for My Health Record (MHR) has been extended to the end of January. However, if you don't opt out by then, you get a MHR from which you can opt out later - at any time. If you’re interested in how others are using [...]
Older Australians are healthier than ever and more people with greater longevity means more dementia in the community and more carers too. The Northern Sydney Dementia Collaborative has recently formed to help people more easily access local healthcare and dementia information, support and services. The Collaborative – comprising Alzheimer’s Australia, Community Care Northern Beaches, North [...]
“Having a Y chromosome is NOT an excuse for unhealthy lifestyle choices!” ... the slogan from Men’s Health Week in June warned blokes of all ages that their health is, to an extent, in their hands. That's because only 30% of a man’s health is genetic while 70% is due to what he does – [...]
When the Seniors Rights Service released its report Abuse of Older People: A Community Response in June, it made eight comprehensive, multi-faceted recommendations to government based on input from more than 50 community organisations. Most importantly the report strongly reiterates the end-of-conference statement from the 5th National Elder Abuse Conference earlier this year, which called [...]
Mel Pike, Activities Co-ordinator, Seniors Hub, Hunters Hill Mel has come to various community roles through the visual arts, a discipline in which she has taught university students among others. She spent 15 years teaching in the country including with an aboriginal community, and has taught art to children and people with disabilities. Now she looks [...]
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