March 2022

‘We deserve dignity’: Figtree woman’s bid to put joy back into aged care

Valma Fell‘s life was touched by dementia three times; first, when her brother-in-law was diagnosed with the “new illness” of Alzheimer’s in the 1960s, again when another brother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimers decades later, and finally when her own husband, former Illawarra Mercury General Manager, Ian Fell, was diagnosed in 2006. “We had very different […]

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‘Now more than ever we need connection’: Joint childcare and aged care to open

What do residents and students at a new centre opening at the end of the year have in common? “We are strangers and we are old, probably ugly too,” jokes 88-year-old Barry Smith. He and his wife, Rose, live at an aged care home that is about to have a childcare centre, which will cater

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