Culture Awareness Articles

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• Culture Awareness
Why do some aged care homes smell funny?
Aged care homes may carry a stigma that there’s a certain ‘smell,’ but is this a given or is there something more to it?

• Culture Awareness
Pension age increase may lead to lower birth rate
Without grandmothers on the Age Pension, their daughters are choosing to postpone childbirth according to a new study.

• Culture Awareness
How attitudes towards veterans have changed over the last 50 years
Why is ANZAC Day important to commemorate?

• Culture Awareness
How does a resident’s life shape their attitudes to aged care?
If you are a care leaver, you may now be reaching an age where you need to consider moving into a residential aged care facility.

• Culture Awareness
• · Dementia
How culture may impact behaviours of people with dementia
Researchers suggest that there could different behaviours exhibited by people with dementia, depending if they are immigrants or not.

• Advice
• · Culture Awareness
When should I check with an older person about hot weather?
Hot suburbs mean higher electricity bills, more heatwave deaths and a blistering environment. When should you check in with an older member of the community?

• Culture Awareness
2023: a year of care and support with DPS Publishing
A letter of thanks, as the team at DPS Publishing looks back on 2023.

• Culture Awareness
• · Government
Here’s exactly what the Voice could have bought older Australians
The Voice referendum was defeated, with the ‘No’ vote cutting hopes of an advisory body short.

• Culture Awareness
• · Health and Wellbeing
An underdiagnosed condition in older adults could pose driving hazards
Do you live with this condition? Let the team at Talking Aged Care know!

• Culture Awareness
• · Health and Wellbeing
How medications impact women differently than men — the new model for meds
Have you had a different reaction from your partner to the same medication? This could be why.

• 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
Did 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch step down due to age?
Will you ‘step down’ from your role at 92 years of age or are you waiting to retire sooner?

• Caring & Carers
• · Culture Awareness
Bring back memories: NSW program aimed at Aussies with dementia
A great initiative has swept Sydney; will you jump on board?

• Culture Awareness
• · Finance
Age Pension rates set to change overnight
What’s in store for your Pension?

• Culture Awareness
• · Government
One in 10 people in Japan is over 80 y.o. — will Australia get there?
What does new data from Japan mean for Australia’s future?