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1 in 4 Australian adults (over 25) have diabetes or pre-diabetes.
Diabetes costs Australia over $1 million per hour
7.2 million pharmaceutical scripts were claimed for diabetes medicines in 2011. These statistics show that a lot of Australians have diabetes, and aged/home and community/disability care workers are likely to meet a patient who has the condition in their line of work.
Carlton Captain Chris Judd and leading aged care providers will take part in the Every Australian Counts cycling challenge to showcase support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The NDIS has still only been committed to pilot funding by State Governments, meaning only 40,000 Australians will receive funding, when in reality over 400,000 Australians are living with a disability.
LASA-WA (Leading Age Services Western Australia) will hold an ACFI Financial Workshop in October.
The workshop is aimed at facility managers, care managers and clinical nurse managers.
Registration is open now and will close by the 17th of October (or until fully booked). The workshop will teach participants to:
The family meets for the first Christmas lunch without the mother, Rose, whose absence is marked by an empty chair.
But how ‘absent’ is she?
And as the father begins to display some eccentricities, it is realised they may soon be losing him to dementia.
This is the synopsis for The Empty Chair a play that faces dementia, with understanding and good humour.
