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Staying Active Later In Life
A great way to stay active and engaged as we get older is by participating in free or low cost events, workshops and activities. They are a wonderful way to get out and about, meet new people, learn a new hobby or just to to have some fun! The Brisbane City Council offer many opportunities such as: 50 plus workshops: These include workshops in Art, Photography, Dancing (line dancing, clogging, ball room etc), Bridge, Knitting, Mahjong, Yoga, Piltaes and light exercises. They are all held at the 50 Plus Centre in Brisbane City 50 Plus Centre The 50 Plus Centre is open to residents in South East Queensland over 50 years of age, pensioners and benefit receivers (excluding unemployment benefits). Activities are held in the…
Diane Raulli Is Still Waiting To Access The Home-Care Package She’s Been Assessed For
Source: ABC News (Norman Hermant) Diane Raulli struggles to get moving in the morning. She lives with paraplegia and relies on a healthcare worker to help her from bed into a wheelchair. Three days a week the 69-year-old pays for the help from her Disability Support Pension. She has no choice. “You can’t explain it really because it’s just so scary. Scary in the sense that you could be in bed all day,” she said. Last April, Ms Raulli was assessed as needing a level four home-care package — the highest level available. She is still waiting. And she is not alone. The latest figures reveal there are now 101,508 people in the queue for appropriate home-care packages. More than 60,000 have no package at…
Dancing May Be A Great Tool In Brain Health
As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. A new study, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, shows that older people who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing has the most profound effect. “Exercise has the beneficial effect of slowing down or even counteracting age-related decline in mental and physical capacity,” says Dr Kathrin Rehfeld, lead author of the study, based at the German center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, Germany. “In this study, we show that two different types of physical exercise (dancing and endurance training) both increase the area of the brain that declines with age….