The Advanced Breast Cancer Group is professionally led and free weekly support group designed to address the specific needs of women living with advanced breast cancer. They connect with women face to face in Brisbane and via teleconference throughout Queensland.
The World Health Organization is focusing global attention on the issue of patient safety and launched a campaign in solidarity with patients on the very first World Patient Safety Day on 17 September.
When we focus on the group of older Australians who are not doing so well at the moment, we see numerous challenges related to finances, health, age discrimination and a general lack of trust in Government and the future.
The Department of Environment and Science has consulted with COTA Queensland on the Plan, which identifies climate change risks to health and wellbeing, and includes priority actions for adaptation.
Today most Queenslanders can expect to live into their eighties and some beyond. Longer life provides the opportunity to reconsider not only what older age might be but how our whole lives might unfold.