Let’s talk about it. Life’s transitions and Dying To Know Day
Republished from Mirage News July 19th, 2019 So far there are 605 events organised for Dying To Know Day throughout Australia on Thursday August 8th – a day dedicated to activating conversations about this important topic. Without these conversations, many of us are dying in a way which is not consistent with our values or […]
NurseWatch partner with Essential Solutions Business & Lifestyle Concierge
Published by Essential Solutions July 8th, 2019|Health & Lifestyle, Your Home In our search for the delivery of high level services for our Business & Lifestyle Concierge members, we are so incredibly fortunate to meet and work with people that built a business to change the lives of their clients. One such person, is Kate […]
APNA’s Transition to Practice Program
Efi Madentzoglou is a current student of APNA’s Transition to Practice Program and she says the program has been a great support for her work as she moves from being a new graduate in nursing to further study and working in primary care roles. As Rebekah Cox, APNA’s Co-ordinator for the program says: “This is […]
Dealing with family illness
Published by HelloCare on July 22nd 2019 Receiving a diagnosis of a serious illness in the family can be devastating. Obviously, for the person concerned there might be suffering, and uncertainty and fear about outcomes. For family, concern for their loved one, coupled with the prospect of taking on the responsibility of caring for them, […]
NurseWatch wins DrivenXDesign Award for My Father is My Hero video
It’s been a year since Cord & Berg made this video about NurseWatch and, when it was released, it won the DrivenXDesign Award for Marketing – Film, Video, Viral. When you take a look here you can see why. Kate Spurway is the CEO of NurseWatch – a premium aged care solution which offers Wellness, […]
Kevin Condon talks with Channel 7 about working with NurseWatch
Mature age models are all the rage right now and this includes Kevin Condon who’s featured in NurseWatch’s marketing material quite a few times. Here he talks with The Daily Edition about what it’s like being a mature-age model and how he enjoyed working on the NurseWatch shoot. You’ll also find out why mature age […]
NurseWatch: A new aged-care-at-home service
The number of Australians receiving home care packages is growing at a record annual growth rate of 29 per cent as reported in the Home Care Packages Data Report (1st Quarter 2018-19, and there are currently at least 69,000 older Australians waiting for their approved level home care package. At a time where a high […]
The ‘sandwich generation’ Caring for your parents and your kids
Republished from HelloCare May 22nd 2019: Changing demographics and social norms in Australia have given rise to a new phenomenon: the ‘sandwich generation’ – those caught between caring for their own children as well as their ageing parents. Parents are choosing to start their families later. The fertility rate for women aged 35-39 has more […]
A guide to supporting elder spirituality
A new free guide from Meaningful Ageing Australia outlining ways to incorporate spirituality into care for frail, older people launched this week. The guide, which lists NurseWatch as one of the companies who gave input, is now available on the Meaningful Ageing website. The guide includes several scenarios centred around reflective listening by aged care […]
New Smart Home technology supporting older people and carers
In Australia, there are over one million people living at home alone. Now, a new Smart Home technology will support these people by detecting and predicting when something goes wrong, then then alerting a family member or care provider. The new Smart Home technology is called Umps Health, and was first developed in 2016 by […]
