The insurance Council of Australia recently confirmed that more than 55% of claims are currently Mental Health and Stress related and growing rapidly. For those living with a mental illness they need to be able to better access support to create more mentally healthy...
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/concussions-should-be-top-priority-for-nrl-20190712-p526tw.html After the stunning State of Origin decider in which the Blues’ James Tedesco lunged across the line for a last-minute try and instant elevation to the pantheon of sporting...
Steve Folkes, the late, great Canterbury player and coach, is the first Australian rugby league player to be diagnosed with a brain disease commonly linked to repetitive head injury in American sports. The local discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)...
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...
