“Reading keeps your brain fit and helps fight off dementia,” the Daily Express reports. The claim is based on a small US study in which older adults had annual tests of brain function during the last six years of their lives and completed questionnaires on their...
Reading books and magazines, writing and participating in other mentally stimulating activities, no matter your age, can help to keep memory and thinking skills intact, a new study suggests. The findings add to growing evidence that mental challenges like reading and...
Aside from the pleasure it gives, reading staves off Alzheimer’s and helps make your personality shine. Reading this is good for your health. Choose to relax with a novel later and you’ll also be doing yourself some good – it may even help you live longer and stay...
Cognexity offers a specialised program for managing key areas of Gender Equity, Cultural Sensitivity, Acceptance and Awareness of Bullying and Sexual Harassment in the workplace using Hogan’s Leadership Forecast Series which includes four development-focused reports....
Water Corporation Near Miss In a recent incident in one of the largest water catchment / suppliers in Australia an Engineer responsible for water quality management almost poisoned 100,000 people in their network by overdosing the water supply with chemicals. One of...
Finally a great article about recognising the changes in our ageing workforce and recognising we have to test at all levels and ages for cognitive competence so we can better manage the health and well being of workers in all industries. All Australian doctors aged 70...
Cognitive decline due to factors such as onset of a dementia can occur with aging and may impact on workplace health and safety as the workforce participation age extends (Silverstein, 2008). This issue is also compounded by evidence that: (i) dementia and other...
Sensibly, everyone seems to be planning for an ageing Australia. But no one is mentioning the elephant in the room. We are all well aware that as the proportion of younger adults in the population declines, many more older Australians will need and want to work,...
The effects of dementia can be seen on the left as compared with a healthy brain on the right. Legal practitioners need to be more wary than most of the risk of dementia, writes DR NICOLA GATES. Recently, a 64-year-old practising barrister...
There is an ever-increasing need to know how to spot the early signs of dementia in the workplace, and to respond sensitively and effectively. By Dr Nicola Gates, Brain and Mind Psychology Cognitive decline is an issue gaining prominence in the workforce as...
