How reading books helps fight Alzheimer’s disease

How reading books helps fight Alzheimer’s disease

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...

Mentoring

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....
Dementia In the Workplace

Dementia In the Workplace

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...
Ageing Australia’s Workplace and Populations

Ageing Australia’s Workplace and Populations

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,...
Health checks for older doctors to prove they’re fit to practise

LEGAL MINDS AND DEMENTIA

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...