A rethink on ageing and work

As business woman and journalist Ita Buttrose stepped down from her position as Australian of the year 2013, she urged people and business to support older Australians in the fight against age discrimination.
As business woman and journalist Ita Buttrose stepped down from her position as Australian of the year 2013, she urged people and business to support older Australians in the fight against age discrimination.
There are few jobs that land you smack bang right in the heart of a family quite like nursing. And so on Saturday night I again found myself in this most intimate of circumstances; this time in eighty-year old Ron’s bedroom. Ron has terminal cancer and is now very weak and consequently has been taking many falls on his way to the bathroom. So the plan was to install a […]