Posts tagged ageing
Slow Movement, Slow Exercise, Slow Living. Dementia & Aged Care Gym Equipment!
Slow Movement, Slow Exercise, Slow Living. Dementia & Aged Care Gym Equipment!

Slow Movement is a concept coming from Turtle Gym - a Japanese company whose philosophy is to be like a turtle with slow living and slow exercise. They produce a range of researched backed Aged Care and Dementia friendly gym equipment designed with constant speeds but where resistance changes with the amount of force applied.

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DEB Talks: Social Media and Aged Care
DEB Talks: Social Media and Aged Care

For good or for bad, Social Media is here to stay. As the number of elderly using social platforms continues to rise so too does our interest in its use within aged care. How can organisations use social media and how can we use it to spread a positive message about ageing?
Listen to find out as Deb explores Social Media, Tiktok and its use in Aged Care in the latest Deb Talk.

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Who Nose About This?
Who Nose About This?

Anna Wolf and Alex Bahar-Fuchs from the University of Melbourne recently wrote an article in The Conversation titled “An impaired sense of smell can signal cognitive decline, but ‘smell training’ could help” to explain that as we get older, we can experience problems with the sense of smell. 

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Research Driven Design
Research Driven Design

The power of words was no better illustrated than at the Aging & Society 8th Interdisciplinary Conference held in Tokyo last month. The discussions and papers were really interesting and very much focused on the latest evidence based research. I was speaking at the Conference and my talk was entitled “Design is not for Philosophy; it’s for Life” which is a famous quote by Issey Miyake. 

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