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4 Simple Innovations to Support Your Independence at Home

4 Simple Innovations to Support Your Independence at Home

Living with impaired mobility? Adaptations in everyday life are important to enable independent living. Wheelchair users require smooth surfaces and ramps and the vision impaired utilise tactile and audio reference to guide them, both which facilitate an individual’s participation in day to day life. Here are 4 simple innovations to help make every day life at home that little bit easier.

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Dr Norman Swan explores the COVID-19 impact on future aged care, Education, governance, Governement COVID response, leadership during covid 19, wellbeing -

Dr Norman Swan explores the COVID-19 impact on aged care in the future

Dr Norman Swan explores the COVID-19 impact on aged care in the future

Physician and ABC producer, journalist and broadcaster, Dr Norman Swan, expressed the need for costly changes in a fragmented and ill-working aged care sector, and outlined the suspected changes we should expect to see in the industry following COVID-19. Posted by Liz Alderslade A guest speaker at Leading Age Services Australia's (LASA) 'Ten Days of Congress' event, held from 12-23 October, Dr Swan provided his expertise around spreading viruses throughout history and how COVID-19 differed, including its detrimental impact on the aged care sector. Dr Swan explained that COVID-19 was already known about before it started to spread as well as...

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