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Photographs May Improve Aged Care Residents’ Wellbeing

on Thursday, February 8, 2018

Moving to aged care from home can be a challenge for many people because it means leaving behind some treasured belongings. But an innovative research partnership is showing that photographs can help residents’ wellbeing after they move.

Photographs May Improve Aged Care Residents’ Wellbeing

Riding His Way into the Next Century

on Wednesday, February 7, 2018

It was a motorbike that brought Albert (Bert) Drury and his late wife Jean together – a marriage he describes as the “best thing I ever did”.

The Glory of Gardening at Wesley Mission Queensland

on Tuesday, February 6, 2018

The bright, sun-flooded upstairs patio of Wesley Mission Queensland Knowles Court aged care community in Sinnamon Park is beginning to look like a jungle. Every week there are more and more pot plants covering every corner – it’s a riot of succulents, aloe vera, spider plants, and potted colour – even the occasional fern. Old Man’s Beard hangs from the upper-most branches of a rather large jade plant. Brian, a resident at Knowles Court, gestures to the jade plant as he walks out onto the patio. “That thing grows like crazy,” he says. “It’s easy to get cuttings from that and pot them up in new pots.”

The Glory of Gardening at Wesley Mission Queensland

Visit from the “Guvnor” a hit at Bolton Clarke Rowes Bay

on Monday, January 29, 2018

Residents at Bolton Clarke’s Rowes Bay residential community in Townsville were recently treated to a very special visit from a young Clydesdale horse.

Visit from the “Guvnor” a hit at Bolton Clarke Rowes Bay