Villages Info Centre

As the years have passed, how many times have you muttered expletives about the design of some ordinary, everyday item that has no regard for the older user? How on earth are you meant to be able to read that label or open that package? Why do things need to have SO much packaging anyway? Why can’t remote controls have bigger buttons and fewer of them? Why is it so hard to go back to where you were on a website after you have clicked on a link? Do online banking time-out functions need to be so damned short? Whatever happened to instruction manuals? Why can’t you get grab rails and bathroom supports that look good? Do nail scissors have to have such small finger holes?

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How can anybody not love a dog? Or a cat I suppose (I personally don’t take to cats but I don’t dislike them). This is the question asked so often when people learn that some retirement villages don’t permit pets – or they will allow goldfish but not birds, cats and dogs.

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Remote aged care facilities are struggling financially to keep their doors open. They are not building new aged care beds and are being forced to send local ‘customers’ long distances to find a bed.

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… if you have memories that ‘survived’ that early childhood forgetting zone, then you are more likely to be able to continue to remember them later in life.

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Gone are the days when twenty years of management experience guaranteed strong performance as a leader.

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