The hamburger: It’s a simple dish, typically composed of a patty of ground meat sandwiched between two buns. Yet, the humble burger has managed to...
For a salaried employee with one job and a single bank account, preparing a tax return is an evening’s work that most people can manage themselves....
Person-centred care is care shaped around the person receiving it: their goals, preferences, routines and relationships, rather than the convenience of the service providing it. The...
Activities of daily living are the everyday tasks a person completes without thinking: washing, dressing, eating, moving between rooms and using the toilet. When age, illness...
The house settles around nine. Doors are left ajar, the hall light stays on, and in the spare room a support worker makes up the bed...
The kettle goes on at the same time every morning, and for years that was all the morning took. These days there are extra steps: a...
Most of the confusion around the NDIS is not about what help a person needs. It is about how the funding that pays for that help...
Much of what you read about community participation funding makes the NDIS sound like a social budget with an endless tap. It is not. It is...
The knock comes at the kitchen door just before lunch. A nurse in a blue uniform sets a bag on the table, washes her hands and...
At 6.40am the alarm goes off and the day already feels behind. Work starts at nine, the train station is a twenty-minute walk on a good...
