Media + Blog
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 doesn...
01
Nov
Music: Aged Care’s Neuro-Superfood
Category: Blog
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 evolutio...
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, b...
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 communicat...
21
Jun
You can’t win by only being compliant: Cohesion and dissent is your secret sauce
Category: Blog
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter Drucker As an innovation network that focuses on improving consumer-centricity in the age services ...
18
Jan
Flinders University and innovAGEING Partner for Caring Futures
Category: Media
Photo caption: Merlin Kong, Head of innovAGEING, Judith Leeson AM, Caring Futures Institute Ambassador, and Prof Sue Gordon at Care Hack, a Flinders University and innovAGEING even...
23
Sep
Driving Sustainable Growth in Community Organisations
Category: Blog
19 years ago, I took the opportunity to leap into the world of caring for people with disabilities as a community care worker. I worked my way through mental health support, admini...
30
Sep
Digital Transformation Is A Marriage Not A Wedding
Category: Blog
“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaw...
16
Dec
Gamification, a New Approach for Age Services?
Category: Blog
The age services sector has been hit hard in 2020. Residents are disproportionately represented in COVID death statistics and the carers supporting them have been put under consid...
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 equ...