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16.01.2022 At HomeWise Health, we do everything we can to make sure our care gives you a high quality of life. We provide full-service home care and care management that is customised to your needs. Our team strives to leave you and your family feeling empowered, optimistic and cared for.

05.01.2022 'Tis the season to be jolly It's now early January and most of Australia is doing what many Australians ritually do in summer, long and lazy days at the beach, soaking up the sun and enjoying the surf. Yet it is a mixed bag, a time of varied emotions when we gather with family and friends, rejoicing in family and community but also reminded of those departed and distant fraught relationships and the brooding sense of things that could have been better and the pangs of "Oh I w...ish they were". Emotions run high and often, as on a roller coaster, move from joy to anger and frustration to despair. People longing for companionship, seeking to love and be loved with members of social and dating sites inundated with "likes" and requests for Meet-ups. Lonely people, many in the twilight of their years, frail, caught in facilities or alone at home, friends outlived, immobile, a captive in their house or in their mind. Not so jolly. It also means the bushfire season and in this summer, for many, the fear, despair and tragedy from the extreme fires ravishing large parts of the country throughout the continent. A regular event exacerbated by a long drought and heavier than normal fuel loads. A national catastrophe that brings the community together to support each other and sadly and inextricably with it, from extremist quarters and opportunists, political point-scoring. We recognise the amazing efforts of our volunteers, particularly the Rural Fire Service where volunteers across the country have forgone their holidays to risk their lives in tireless and dangerous service, selflessly fighting fires to protect the lives and property of their fellows. These are our heroes. Sadly this year, these difficult situations have again led to the loss of life and widespread losses to stock and native fauna and property and natural destruction. With it, the agony of lives lost, incapacitated and disabled throughout the volunteer and wider communities. Lives stolen, cut short before their season with the lasting grief that brings to family, friends and their community enduring beyond this season. We appreciate and laud the efforts of all those that have gone beyond themselves and selflessly cared for others, in whatever capacity. With the pall of smoke and tragedy hanging over all our heads, we weep with those that weep. And yet we seek to remind ourselves that the rain will inevitably come and with it, new life, green shoots bursting forth, healing the blackened bush. Some of Dorothea Mackellar's words from her quintessential poem, My Country, remind us that we have survived a similar past and can give us hope for better times in the future. "Core of my heart, my country Land of the Rainbow Gold For flood and fire and famine She pays us back threefold."

01.01.2022 Towards a Better Quality of Life Working in in-home care and observing the way our clients live, coupled with our own health histories, has challenged us to find out and talk about those things that we can all do that might impact how well we live in our retirement years. This challenge has provoked months of study into various aspects of health and well-being but particularly as it relates to aging. The underlying question was, "will this help to improve our lives now and a...lso assist people to live well as they grow older". We covered those areas we know help us to live well, namely, - Eating well (and not overeating) - Sleeping well (leveraging our circadian rhythm) - Exercise (strength for independence) - Learning (with a growth mindset) and - Sharing our lives (with our families, friends and community) Research doesn't always proceed as systematically as we like. It is more a voyage of discovery and the more so when, like Columbus, we are not sure of the destination. We followed where the wind blew and the current flowed. While we had a general sense of the direction we followed many different paths based upon what took our interest as we started to research the basics for aging well, including the special language used by the experts. While held firmly in the current we were was captured by the breath of new ideas building a body of knowledge that might be useful to anyone looking for some guidance on how to further their education. At the very least you could avoid being caught up in breathless eddies. We found an endless amount of material waiting to be discovered and much of it, extremely interesting. Some from lay "experts" also emerged, provoked by a family member that had suffered from one of the modern chronic diseases, determined to find answers and not restricted to old paradigms. Research into these topics will probably become a life-long interest as there is much we can do to improve our lives in our older years and as the months unfold we will explore some of the more interesting science particularly as it relates to a long and healthy life. By way of a caveat, we are presenting these ideas as thought-starters and certainly not to replace sound medical advice. We'll make a start talking about ancient wisdom and recent discoveries on eating next we chat with some stories from our experience at HomeWise.