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There are a number of times that schools included activities, such as an outreach, to expose students and urge them to reach out a helping hand on those who are in need. An outreach program is providing services to those people who have no accessed to it or find it hard to have one due […]
Aged care has been surrounded by eye-opening stories. Among of the eye-opening stories is the number of older Australians at risk with malnutrition. Another eye-opening stories is that aged care facilities are looking less homely in terms of residential aesthetics, but instead transforming into institutionalized facilities by expanding operational capacity. Fortunately, these eye-opening scenarios often […]
Commonly, when we read the word diet, we immediately think about weight-loss regimens that will remove every single food that your inner child loves. Evidently, ‘diet’ has been used in marketing strategies and exercise videos, but the word diet has a quintessential meaning to it. Diet means to the food and drink intake of a […]
Looking back, institutions in Australia were as big as hospitals in terms of facilities. People with disability and mental illness, along with orphaned children, were living in these spacious facilities. But the space also equates to more residents in the area. Flash forward today; these institutions were closed down due to the influence of the […]
Australia is widely known as a culturally diverse country. For example, the city of Sydney and the state of New South Wales, where the state houses an estimated 250 different languages that came from the different parts of the world. Australia itself as a whole is rich in cultural history. With the different languages being […]
In Australia, there exists around 80 per cent of Australians that are aged 65 years and up who rely on their age pension. Currently, the country houses around 3.7 million Australians aged 65 and up, which is already 15 per cent of the population. The population growth of the ageing is also expected to increase […]
It’s a common scenario among people to compare the struggles of taking care of a growing child and an ageing parent. However, Iona, an ageing organisation in the United States, stated that the two are separate and should not be compared directly to one another. The organisation explains the demands of childcare should not be […]
Australia is a home to an ageing population. At a glance, there are one in seven people who are within the ageing population or at the age of 65 and up. In 2016, the aged population has already reached 15 per cent of the country’s population, which is already 3.7 million. And this number is […]