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• Caring & Carers
• · Leadership
Meet the new face behind 12 percent of Australia’s aged care
Keen to meet the CEO? Jason Kara opens up about his new role in shaping Australia’s aged care sector.

• Caring & Carers
• · Culture Awareness
Ageing isn’t synonymous with depression — Anglicare’s Prevention Program
Content warning: this article contains references to suicide, depression and mental health crises

• Culture Awareness
• · End of Life
Should you include a charity in your will?
Do you have a favourite charity? Consider helping an important cause when you’re reviewing your will

• Health and Wellbeing
• · Leadership
79-year-old George Krams is the sign of a life worth living
George set a Guinness World Record in 1982 for maintaining sign language at or above 45 words per minute for 35 hours and five minutes — to date, the record is yet to be broken.

• Culture Awareness
• · Government
The aged care landscape is changing and so is Heritage Care
Heritage Care is embracing a new era in aged care, with new ownership and management.

• Advice
• · Health and Wellbeing
World-first ‘Master of Breast Cancer’ academic cautions women over 40

• Advice
• · Culture Awareness
What can Australia learn from Canada’s care model?

• Allied Health
• · Health and Wellbeing
Three people, 20 years of work: prostate cancer treatment in Queensland

• Caring & Carers
• · Finance
‘Not valued for their work’ — aged care confusion leads to exclusion in wage increases
Head of not-for-profit aged care provider, Whiddon’s Chief Executive Officer has shared his solidarity with the many staff who remain unsure whether their pay will increase this year.

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
What do young people gain from aged care work?
Kay hopes that her inspiring and insightful experience may offer younger workers an amazing alternative to their career plans.

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
Community Vision’s plea for technology in aged care

• Dementia
• · Education & Training
Aussie unis and Silverchain partner to reduce loneliness and dementia symptoms
The Fellowship will expand upon a successful pilot program that Dr Samtani and his team co-designed with Dementia Australia Dementia Advocates and which saw significant improvements in social...

• Dementia
• · Government
Three-quarters of WHO Member States fail to reach dementia targets
Global advocacy federation Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) is leading the charge on calls to extend the Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia, following the...

• Caring & Carers
• · Health and Wellbeing
The kind heart behind HammondCare’s lolly cart
Over the last few months, Mr Gallagher turned the garage of his Fern Bay home into a production line to make handmade lolly trolleys — his very own sweet fleet.

• Caring & Carers
• · Health and Wellbeing
National Volunteers Week kicks off today
Today, we raise a glass and toast the five million people living in Australia today who volunteer to help their community out, with two-thirds returning in-person to keep the cogs turning in...