Blog
03
Aug
Innovation Through Servant Leadership and Courage
Category: Blog
There’s a saying that you can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods, and still be in business tomorrow. Late last year I attended an Australian Institut...
26
Jun
Pressure injury prevention: Time to measure, time to care
Category: Blog
The death of Ann Marie Smith has shocked Australia. Whilst an independent review is investigating the social and system failures that have occurred in her care, the reported facts ...
27
May
Office Not Required: The Age Services’ Inadvertent Innovation
Category: Blog
Be courteousEveryone is a volunteer Being rudeSlows people down It takes time to get overFeeling hurt, offended Be courteousIt’s more efficient – Christopher Nailer, Palm Cards for...
27
May
Designing for death: Love project or legacy of stigma?
Category: Blog
Detection and monitoring systems. Non-intrusive wearable devices. Carer apps. All reflect tech’s growing role in aged care. Technology and design also have a presence in the space ...
27
May
Building from COVID-19: Towards Connected Communities, Meaningful Innovation, and Humanised Technology
Category: Blog
During this crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the age services industry has inadvertently been handed its greatest opportunity to shift focus, and rapidly apply meaningful change th...
26
May
The Secret on Increasing Workforce Capacity… Eliminating Underemployment
Category: Blog
From speaking with our clients, we know that finding workers to fill vacant shifts is hard at the best of times and is now made more challenging in the current situation with Covid...
22
May
Catalysing Aged Care’s ‘Next Normal’
Category: Blog
Digital services have played a crucial role in the aged care sector’s response to COVID-19. Across the country, aged care providers are using technology in new ways to ensure conti...
18
May
The Importance of Being Channel Enabled: Making Communities Happen During COVID-19 and Beyond
Category: Blog
If we look ahead to the next five years, one of the biggest challenges for the age services sector is communication – who we communicate with, how we communicate, why we communicat...
21
Apr
Remote Governance during the age of COVID-19
Category: Blog
If given the choice, I doubt you could think of a more inopportune time to inflict a pandemic that disproportionately impacts elderly Australians than right now. With the aged care...
17
Apr
How can providers manage social and community perceptions during COVID-19?
Category: Blog
Unfortunately, there is no marketing and communications playbook for managing a global health crisis like COVID-19. Professional marketers, agencies, PR firms and communicators are...