Health
Maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing as you get older is vital to enjoying your later years. YourLifeChoices understands this and we bring you up-to-date information, resources and relevant feature articles on the health checks you need, nutrition, managing pain, choosing health insurance, the ins and outs of grandparenting and which alternative medicines may give you the health boost you need. We also explain how aged care works, including residential aged care, aged care services delivery and health and ageing.
Daring to confront our inner self
Daring to confront our inner self
How we hide the truth from ourselves and how to achieve psychological freedom.
Mental health support for older Aussies
Mental health support for older Aussies
University’s trial program seeks additional participants for online initiative.
Health insurance changes catch out many
Health insurance changes catch out many
Members warned after changes mean many may have different exclusions than they once did.
Daylight saving linked to heart attack
Daylight saving linked to heart attack
Changing our clocks is bad for the ticker.
Lymph node swelling explained
Lymph node swelling explained
Your lymph nodes can swell and become tender for a number of reasons.
How much TV is too much?
How much TV is too much?
Watching television for more than three and a half hours a day linked to poorer ...
Jane Goodall’s fight for animal rights
Jane Goodall’s fight for animal rights
Sixty years on, Dame Jane continues her tireless campaign for a healthier environment.
Your Health
How proper hydration affects your body
Being hydrated affects your weight, energy and brain function.
Drink upZoonotic diseases at home
Zoonotic diseases (also known as zoonoses) are caused by germs that spread between animals and people.
Can animals make us ill?Wellbeing
Pink noise and sleep explained
Listening to this noise at night may help you sleep more soundly.
Sleep soundlySleep apnoea not the end of the world
Sleep apnoea is more common than you may think and life threatening if not treated.
More common than you thinkGood and bad COVID habits
Time to eliminate bad lockdown habits and reinforce the good ones.
Out with the bad, in with the goodHearing
Drug can stop hearing loss: study
Biologists identify hearing-loss receptor, use drug to prevent hearing damage
Saving soundHearing aids may prevent dementia
People who wear hearing aids for age-related hearing problems maintain better brain function.
Hearing checkAdvantages of disability
Could there be positives in failing sight and hearing? Peter Leith believes so.
Look, listen, loveHealth news
Health hazards hiding in your home
Mould is making 2.5 million Aussies more susceptible to coronavirus.
Healthy housing agendaBad air is bad for your brain
Pandemic helps prove air pollution’s link to conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
Something in the airGiving older people a fair go
Professor Joseph Ibrahim tells what is required to fix our ailing aged care system.
How to fix aged careCOVID-19
Older men key to beating COVID?
Study suggests that older males who have recovered from COVID have the best antibodies.
Best bloodOlder workers losing out to JobMaker
Youth employment subsidy may cause significant collateral damage.
Given noticeVictoria weathers the second wave
Only Vietnam and Hong Kong have done as well as Victorians.
VIC–toriousHealth essentials
Better life for those with chronic pain?
Can private health cover improve quality of life for those with chronic conditions?
Improve your quality of lifeHow healthy is your supermarket?
The ‘Fresh Food People’ awarded healthiest home brand packaged products.
Who’s healthiest?Turn care wait from nightmare to dream
Most Australians want to age at home. Here’s how we can.
Home sweet homeBrain health
Sitting not bad for older adults
New study reveals that sedentary older adults perform better on some brain tests.
Sit on thisApathy a sign of Alzheimer’s
Your lack of interest could be an early warning of Alzheimer’s, say scientists.
Time to care?Sleep apnoea identical to Alzheimer’s
Researchers discover identical signs of brain damage in sleep apnoea and Alzheimer’s.
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