Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness plays a vital role in how we feel about ourselves, how we age, how we rehabilitate and how we can burn unused energy. In Care Central Share our tips as to how to gain a spark back in our lives.
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The Importance of Respite
The longer we work within NDIS the higher the importance has become evident for both a participant and primary carer to take some time and enjoy some respite. Unfortunately this does not prove to be an easy feat for many. For years they’ve become self dependent on providing care, dealt with the myriad of health issues and care changes and to think prior to NDIS many of these people have managed the care of their loved ones by themselves, there’s no wonder there’s primary carers out there who are completely depleted because they’ve had to neglect their own care and well being for far too long. NDIS have identified carer…
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Alleviate Wait Room Pressure
Alleviate Wait Room Pressure There’s many issues facing our health system. A Pandemic certainly hasn’t helped in the mix. A rapidly growing ageing population as our life expectancies increase, challenges with filling a medical workforce, particularly in regional areas, demands on waiting rooms and backlogged consultations and surgeries are just some of the issues we face. There’s no one simple solution but there are ways we can alleviate some of the pressure experienced and that’s by receiving home consultations and health care where possible. Prevention is always the key to avoid our health spiralling out of control to a point where it becomes difficult to enjoy a quality of life,…
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Spending time outdoors has countless health benefits
Exploring the outdoors and spending time in nature is the perfect way to desensitise. Our lives are filled with technology and noise. We believe at In Care Central a key part of desensitising is to spend some time in nature. Short walks in botanical gardens, sitting by a babbling creek or waterfall, enjoying the birdlife, walking bare foot, doing some gardening and feeling the salt air of the ocean are just some of the key activities we encourage where possible with our home care and disability care services. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram to stay up to date with some of our client adventures, we’re also working on some…
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Making the Most of Your Retirement
Making the Most of Your Retirement When we retire, changes in life roles can have a negative impact on our activity levels. This is often because people have difficulty filling the void that is created when our working lives cease. We’ve spent the past forty odd years working the daily grind, dealing with stress, balancing work with social outings and functions and then you take the package, book a well earned holiday and then what? If you relate to this predicament, you have to part take in activity that stimulates both body and mind. There’s loads of things you can sink your teeth into. We suggest initially writing a list…
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Effective Rehabilitation
Keys to Effective Rehabilitation Many of us in some point in our lives strain a muscle, tear ligaments, break bones, dislocate joints or undergo surgery. With any injury or surgical procedure a rehabilitation process is necessary. The duration and extent of this process is of course determined by the severity of the injury sustained or the procedure undertaken. If you become subject to an injury or are present when someone sustains one, the appropriate first aid procedure to remember is the R.I.C.E principal, which includes: Rest the injured body part immediately Ice the injured site Compress the injured site Elevate the injured limb Following this protocol will assist with pain…
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Why Weight Training is So Important
Diet is a great way to ensure you fuel your body with the required nutrients it needs but you also have to maintain some kind of exercise regime no matter what the age or disability. Resistance or weight training, helps maintain and improve bone density which is vital as we get older. With age we tend to be more prone to falls and fractures and good bone density minimises the impact of these falls. Weight training also improves our strength, balance, posture, muscle length and mobility or range in motion which helps significantly when carrying injuries or living with a disability. It also improves our circulation which decreases the risk of…
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Diabetes – we can’t ignore it
Have we truly given Australia’s fastest growing chronic disease much consideration? Diabetes effects over two million people in Australia alone with approximately 750,000 Australians suffering from Type 2 Diabetes unknowingly! Diabetes is a result of the pancreas being unable to make sufficient insulin, a hormone that metabolises glucose. Without sufficient insulin the body builds up glucose in the bloodstream rather than it traveling into the body’s cells where energy is made. There are 2 types of Diabetes, ‘Type 1’ and ‘Type 2’ Diabetes can occur at any age and is a result of the pancreas being unable to produce insulin because the cells that make it have been destroyed by…
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Communication is Key
Communication is key Being a good communicator is essential in order to have both own needs and the needs of those closest to us met, be it partner, child, carer, teacher or boss. Good communication consists of three essential skills: listening to what the other person is saying expressing how you feel and what you think and accepting the other person’s opinions and feelings, even when they are different from your own. Key listening skills include looking at the person as they are speaking, being encouraging (i.e. nodding your head), using open ended questions (i.e. how do you feel) and reflecting back the speakers emotions, “you must feel frustrated”. This…
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