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Cultural dance workshops for people with vision loss; an “exercise bingo” game for over-65s; skateboarding and scooting workshops for youth in a remote town; and a group exercise program for carers of people with Parkinson’s Disease.
These are all winning projects in the 2020 Active Australia Innovation Challenge, the Heart Foundation announced today. This was the third challenge run by the Heart Foundation, with 306 entries received from across Australia.
The challenge invited tertiary institutions, schools, councils and other organisations to submit innovative ideas for getting people moving. The winners will each receive a grant of $10,000 to turn their project into a reality.
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Our reluctance to think, talk or communicate about death is even more pronounced when we deal with others’ loss compared to our own, new research finds, but either way we tend to frame attitudes and emotions in a sad and negative way.
Teaching new more positive ways to address these difficult conversations is the focus of a new paper in PLOS ONE journal by palliative care specialists across Australia.
Led by Flinders University’s Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD) and Palliative and Supportive Services, researchers from Flinders, CQUniversity Australia, NT Palliative Care Central Australia and University of Technology Sydney, surveyed 1,491 people about the use of language to express their feelings and insights into death and dying.
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Our reluctance to think, talk or communicate about death is even more pronounced when we deal with others loss compared to our own, new research finds, but either way we tend to frame attitudes and emotions in a sad and negative way.
Teaching new more positive ways to address these difficult conversations is the focus of a new paper in
PLOS ONE journal by palliative care specialists across Australia.
Led by Flinders University s Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying (RePaDD) and Palliative and Supportive Services, researchers from Flinders, CQUniversity Australia, NT Palliative Care Central Australia and University of Technology Sydney, surveyed 1,491 people about the use of language to express their feelings and insights into death and dying.
Targeted Therapies Alliance provides new information, resources about the rheumatoid arthritis journey
Dec 18 2020
Taking the first step and getting medical help for joint pain can be hard, but for autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, delaying treatment can lead to increased permanent joint damage and disability.
New information and resources from the
Targeted Therapies Alliance, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, provide people with information about the rheumatoid arthritis journey from diagnosis to treatment.
Suzanne Blogg is a Sydney woman living with rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren’s syndrome who features in a new consumer video titled ‘Living with methotrexate’.