Media + Blog
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...
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...
15
Jan
Trends We’re Following In 2018
Category: Blog
Before the year gets ahead of us, here’s a quick list of initiatives that we’re keeping an eye on at innovAGEING. Augmented reality goes mainstream with live apps th...
06
Dec
Better Care and Funding Models: It’s the Quality, Stupid
Category: Blog
The Scottish philosopher, Alisdair MacIntyre, once offered that what we believe to be fundamentally real underpins our ethical beliefs. This in turn reflects the economic paradi...
03
Sep
Nominations for innovAGEING National Awards Now Open
Category: Media
innovAGEING, along with its Foundation Partners the Commonwealth Bank and KPMG, is proud to announce that nominations for the innovAGEING National Awards are open. Now in its se...
28
Sep
The UX Factor In Data and Analytics
Category: Blog
Every wearable pings a precise location every second (that’s a lot of data). My role is to turn those coordinates into answers for questions being asked by care providers and fa...
29
Sep
Reconciling Quality and Efficiency: Fixing Information Silos In Care
Category: Blog
A single, quality assured plan of care, key information and a detailed schedule of care activities for each resident, shared by all involved in care delivery? Sounds obvious do...
30
Sep
The Mobile Health Moment: Understanding Mobility Patterns and Infection Control
Category: Blog
Infectious diseases affect billions of people each year and are one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for an estimated 14.7 million deaths per year – this is ...
02
Oct
Innovation’s Finance Problem: Why the Math Stacks Up, but Maybe Not Your Decisions
Category: Blog
“If a factory is torn down, but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then rationality will simply produce another factory…There’s so much talk about the system. A...
25
Sep
Leveraging Data and Communication Technology To Improve Infection Control In Aged Care Facilities
Category: Blog
Living in 21st Century Australia means living with two universal realities. The first, is that data informs almost every step of our life, and the second, is that modern communi...