Keep Calm – Because LOVE is the answer – Our Model of Ageing

What do you get when you add an architect, an educational strategist and a nurse and combined decades of time working in the aged care environment together? Oops!!!! forgot something. Let’s add the shared values of a committed belief in love, caring and empathy being part of the ageing experience for all people, across the globe.

Well, in short, you get respected colleagues who become loved friends, a lot of reflection, a lot of sharing, a lot of talking and now a lot of action. Read more Keep Calm – Because LOVE is the answer – Our Model of Ageing

♥ ♥ I am back – to spread the LOVE – there is work to be done♥ ♥

There are so many systemic and pervasive issues impacting on the care of older people both in the community and in residential aged care settings.  Any of us who continue to work in these settings, know that even in “good facilities and good environments” we find regular examples of care practices that expose us to feelings varying from discomfort to downright despair.

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Working on me to influence PCC Hint number 2: “A smile on your dial”

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa

A beautiful smile A smile seems a most appropriate place to start in how to influence the environments within which we work.

I was reminded of the importance of humour from attending a presentation of Dr Peter Spitzer of the Clown Doctors the other evening. http://clowndoctors.org.au

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