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Advice: Caring for Feet!
Foot hygiene is essential for everyone, especially older people or those with circulatory or diabetic conditions. Care for your family member’s feet (and yours too!) with tips from registered nurse…
Advice: Give Yourself A Break
If you support an older family member, do you know how New Zealand’s respite system works? Do you know what kinds of time out are available? How do you organise…
Advice: Carer Burnout
Often we don’t even recognise the symptoms of burnout. Sometimes family carers become so stressed they lose perspective and do not realise they are no longer coping. Carer burnout is…
Continence: Hand Hygiene
Frequent hand washing is the best way to control infection risks. Continence Advisor Andrea Lord provides helpful tips about hand hygiene! The number one infection control measure you can take…
Continence: A Proactive Choice to Have a Colostomy
Following his serious injury, Rhett Brown made the proactive decision to have a colostomy to manage his bowel care. The following extract has been taken from Rhett’s inspiring book, This…
Help for the Hard of Hearing
Who can help if you think you might be experiencing some level of hearing loss (it’s a problem for 16% of the general population, and 33% of those aged 60…
Life Coach: Break Bad Habits!
Life coach Richard Blakeborough loves a nice glass of wine, but he doesn’t want to have one … well, only occasionally. I was excited when I saw my first column…
Life Coach: Plant, Weed, Nourish!
Keeping the garden tidy and enjoying its gifts has many parallels with how we approach life. By Family Care columnist and life coach Richard Blakeborough. Last Sunday I had a…