SBS television  recently commissioned surveys to ask more than 2,000 Australians about their views on people with disabilities, older people and overweight people and in a series of three programs attitudes to each group are explored. Hidden cameras, interviews and research findings provide insight into Australian attitudes. Last night the…

I don’t know about you, but some days I look in the mirror and say..who’s that old person? Then with dollops of creams, toners, serums and occasionally masterful  make – up, the wrinkles, sun spots and lines seem less prominent and I can feel more ” like myself.” The end…

I don’t know about you but I’m really weary. It’s somehow different to being tired. When I’m tired I just have a good night’s sleep and bounce back.  I was having lunch with friends when Melbourne’s latest (5th) lock-down was announced. We all looked shocked and rushed off to cancel…

If you’ve been clinically depressed you’ll know the force of this debilitating illness and its impact on you and those around you. Thankfully I have been well for many years now but I’m hyper – vigilant during times like the Covid crisis and I’ve learned how to manage my health…

I saw this the other day, “It takes a long time to make your life simple.” This thought followed me on this hum-drum rainy Monday as I fought with the vacuum cleaner, scrubbed pans and attended to boring cleaning tasks around the home. Perhaps this is why many older people…

Household budgets make me shudder. I did my last one in 2020 and look how that year turned out! When I ran my consulting business for 20 years I was hugely busy and also super organised. (What do they say about giving important tasks to busy people?!) Quarterly reporting was…

I’m cooking up a storm in the kitchen since the arrival of my new stove with the big oven and 5 burners. It’s that time of the year when the salad spinner goes into hibernation and the heavy cast iron pots come out to play. I thought I’d share a…

Two threads weave together. The first thread was from two conversations I had this week. One was a pricing conversation with a carpenter. The other conversation was with a friend about her concerns about parenting and grandparenting. The second thread was coming across a book about the art of conversation…

Let’s talk heart health. It is estimated that over 5% of the Australian population had a condition related to heart disease in 2017/18 (i.e. stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure.)  There were more than 1.2m hospitalisations for coronary illness in 2017/18, that’s 11% of all hospitalisations. Indigenous Australians have heart…