Blog
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 Co...
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 co...
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 communi...
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 c...
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 ...
09
Apr
Service Continuity During COVID-19: Australian Scale-Ups and Start-Ups Can Help
Category: Blog
In the months ahead, safe and supported independence for older Australians is going to become unfathomably difficult. Out of necessity, providers are scrambling to consider how ...
07
Apr
UV Disinfection and Transport Robots Join the Fight Against COVID-19
Category: Blog
The robotics industry has come a long way over the past 10 years, but nothing will bring automation to the front of our minds like an international pandemic. Aged care providers...
03
Apr
Ageing in Place with Companion Animals
Category: Blog
Ageing in Place with Companion Animals: designing care networks that support the role of companion animals in the lives of older Australians Over the next few decades, around th...
01
Apr
Design In Aged Care Can Solve Your Problems: And Why Repackaging Orthodoxies Should First Piss You Off!
Category: Blog
“It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Strip the colourful post-it notes...
31
Mar
Combating Lockdown Isolation with Technology and Music
Category: Blog
New restrictions mean residents of aged-care facilities are feeling more isolated than ever, with overworked, overburdened staff scrambling to provide services to continue to su...