“We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking.”—Susan Cain, Author and Lecturer Not too long ago, a visit to Sydney to meet an ambitious sector leader of an…

innovAGEING, along with its Foundation Partners the Commonwealth Bank and KPMG Australia, is delighted to announce the finalists for the 2021 innovAGEING National Awards. The organisation finalists in the six categories are: Age Services Innovator of the Year AwardCameron van den Dungen (Sleeptite), Natasha Chadwick (New Direction Care), Prue Densley (St Vincent’s Care Services with…

Back in 1997 Harvard scientist, Steven Pinker referred to music as nothing more than ‘auditory cheesecake’. A nice to have that tickles our pleasure system but has no real evolutionary purpose. Although over the last 20+ years, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, and evolutionary research has uncovered that music is one of the most powerful stimuli humans…