How an End-Of-Life Doula Can Ease A Challenging Time

Posted on August 16, 2022 • No Comments

Guest blog from Julie at Doula Connections Doulas are more commonly known to help women during the birthing process, but did you know there are doulas who assist people at the end of life too? Death doulas or end-of-life doulas can be engaged to help people navigate anything associated with end of life. Death can […]

Posted on October 21, 2018 • No Comments

How To Create A Culture Of Dignified Care In Every Care Context. We all know dignity is the central pillar to person-centred practice. The problem is that if we’re not intentional, talking about dignity can be limited to just that – talk…and we can get stuck when it comes to the realm of action. So […]

Posted on September 11, 2018 • No Comments

What is the no.1 most overlooked thing in aged and community care? Dignity.   There – I didn’t even make you work for it! It might be the biggest thing that gets overlooked in aged and community care, but dignity is one of those words that doesn’t always mean a whole lot to us in […]

Posted on April 6, 2018 • No Comments

Benefits of Online Training You know when you see a piece of clothing that shows one size fits all and you think yeah right! Well training and how it is delivered isn’t a ONE SIZE FITS ALL reality either.  With our busy lifestyles and work/ life commitments there needs to be flexibility for students to […]

Posted on March 23, 2018 • No Comments

Ideas for activities for the older person in Aged Care Australia’s population is ageing – we all know it. But the unanswered question remains: how to best support this precious demographic of humans through their golden years? There’s lots of ideas out there, but here’s just one that will make your life a lot easier […]

Posted on March 5, 2018 • No Comments

Sometimes working in aged care feels like ‘The Fast and The Furious’ – but instead of Vin Diesel, it’s Mr Jones in Room 2 with a banged-up hoist, not a Mazda RX-7 street racer. So how do we provide quality care and still have enough time to get it all done each shift?

Posted on February 13, 2018 • No Comments

Want a career in the community sector but not really sure what avenue you want to take? Need those difficult questions asked but don’t know who to ask? Have a list of questions?

Posted on April 24, 2017 • No Comments

There are thousands of Registered Training Organisations (RTO) in Australia and there are many similarities between them but also lots of differences.

Posted on March 13, 2017 • No Comments

In Australia much work is being done to support people to stay at home, and part of their communities, for as long as possible. To ensure our Aged Care System is sustainable and affordable long into the future, NSW Health and the Commonwealth Government are working on reforms to improve services for all of our […]

Posted on March 9, 2017 • 2 Comments

This is an interesting topic and the concept is pretty new to me. When I first heard about it, it really took me by surprise that I hadn’t actually thought about it like that before.