by Staff Member | Apr 15, 2021 | healthy@home News
The Aged Care Workforce Industry Council (ACWIC) has launched a new campaign urging Australians to bring their skills, talents and passions into a rewarding career in aged care. Titled ‘Bring Your Thing’, the work is part of a drive to triple the aged care...
by Anu Manoharan | Dec 9, 2020 | healthy@home News
In an early move towards outcome-based reporting, the healthy@home consortium has begun asking Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) clients whether its services are improving their quality of life. The healthy@home consortium used the Adult Social Care Outcomes...
by Anu Manoharan | Jun 19, 2020 | healthy@home News
To prove you’re only as young as you feel, Brisbane North PHN’s healthy@home aged care consortium took on the hip hop challenge to raise awareness about ageism and had a lot of fun while they were at it! Ageism is the stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination...
by Anu Manoharan | Jun 2, 2020 | healthy@home News, Service Provider News, Support organisation news
Acknowledging the greater risk older people face from COVID-19, local aged care service providers are staying connected with their clients through regular telephone contact and supporting their wellbeing with ‘shop and drop’ services.By Julie Morrow...
by Anu Manoharan | Apr 9, 2020 | healthy@home News
NB: This article was first published in the Autumn 2020 edition of LASA Fusion magazine. It discusses group support and centre-based respite services, which are temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some providers are delivering group services online....
by Anu Manoharan | Jan 20, 2020 | healthy@home News
Join a FREE active class for 65yrs and over every Monday from 9.30am to 10.15am at The Community Place, 20 Clark Street, Woolowin. Call Co.As.It. Community Services on 07 3624 6100 to book your place. Classes by a professional physiotherapist; come along and meet new...