by Anu Manoharan | May 25, 2023 | healthy@home News, Support organisation news
Trish Large gave birth to her son on 17 October 1968, but it would be 22 years, 11 months, four days, five hours and 45 minutes of heartbreak before she would see him. She had just turned 20 and had to be forcibly restrained as her baby was taken from her as soon as...
by Anu Manoharan | Sep 2, 2022 | healthy@home News
Staff at the Social Group Centres at Co.As.It. Community Services created a new theme to help client’s revisit great memories. Welcome Rock’n’Roll Week. An initiative created by coordinators who run centres in north and west Brisbane inspired by the recent...
by Anu Manoharan | Aug 31, 2022 | healthy@home News, Service Provider News
What began as a get-together for older Australians almost four decades ago has evolved into a full-blown 21st century digital approach to combatting the scourge of loneliness. And that, says Inclusee’s CEO Rachael Cook, is the organisation’s strength. “Loneliness is...
by Anu Manoharan | May 24, 2022 | healthy@home News, Service Provider News
Barbara Buchanan (87) and Margaret Bullock (89) celebrating their birthdays at Communify Healthy@home clients share their diverse life stories TWO sisters separated by distance were faced with the prospect of never being able to spend time together as dementia slowly...
by Anu Manoharan | Apr 29, 2022 | Service Provider News, Support organisation news
Featured image: Jude Emmer CEO of Wesley Mission Queensland (seated front right) with staff at an event IT was a daring experiment when Wesley Mission Queensland opened Queensland’s first aged care community in 1936. Yet for an organisation that can trace its roots to...
