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The decision to move either yourself or a loved one into an aged care home is one of the most difficult decisions you can make and is a life changing event for all concerned. For an elderly person and their family it marks the transition to end-of-life. It can be a confusing, frustrating and stressful time, but with some careful ...

THERE ARE many age milestones in life – turning 18, turning 21 and, for most people, turning anything that ends in a ‘0’ is a big event. Journey spoke to some young people about how they viewed ageing. Jane Moad, 27, said she was enjoying getting older. “Whilst 30 seems like a big milestone that I don’t want to acknowledge, ...

Blue Care, formerly the Blue Nursing Service, started out in 1953 as an initiative of the Uniting Church and has since grown into Australia’s largest provider of community health and residential aged care. Modern-day initiatives and a shared mission to support the well-being of individuals, families and communities continue to keep this connection to the Uniting Church alive. So, what ...

In Queensland by 2020 life expectancy will increase – from 77 years to 81 years for men, and from 82 years to 85 years for women. What are the implications for us as a country and as a state when a greater proportion of our population is older? Social commentator and sociologist, Hugh Mackay, considers the effects of this different ...

SEVEN YEARS ago Pastor Craig Gross and Pastor Mike Foster decided that part of their ministry to young people needed to deal with the issue of pornography and addiction. “I just noticed this common theme amongst kids that they were caught up in this and there was no outlet, no place that told you the other side of the story, ...

Make a weekly prayer diary, skip 40 times forward and 15 times backwards, and be sure to keep your body clean and healthy. These were some of the requirements of the Fourth Class Test in the Page’s Handbook of the Order of Knights. The thousands of young boys who participated in this Methodist youth organisation in the first half of ...

Controversial Victorian Catch the Fire Ministries leader Pastor Danny Nalliah said he was not surprised by the Victorian bush fires following a dream he had last October relating to consequences of the abortion laws passed in Victoria. "In my dream I saw fire everywhere with flames burning very high and uncontrollably. “With this I woke up from my dream with ...

Moderator of the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania has today expressed deep sadness and grief over the tragic Victorian bushfires. Rev Jason Kioa said alongside acts of untold bravery and great generosity Victorians had witnessed the horror and pain of death, injury, loss of homes and cherished items. Mr Kioa said even at this early stage he was aware of ...

Sharp criticism unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of a cleric who was later found to have been a Holocaust denier is continuing in the Pope’s native Germany. The reinstatement by the Pope of excommunicated Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), came only days before a Swedish television interview showed ...

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who was enthroned in Moscow as Kirill I, the 16th patriarch in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church has stressed it is his task to ensure unity within the church to preserve the faith, but he is also seen as being a more "political leader" than his predecessor by some analysts. Hundreds of ...