For Korean War Veteran Fred the year he married his “beautiful blonde”, 1951, was the best year of his life. It was the year that marked the beginning of a 65-year partnership as together they searched for a place to call home, eventually finding it in Western Australia. When it’s taken so long to find...

Bolton Clarke has won further recognition for aged care innovation, this time for wearable technology to tackle social isolation and loneliness. The wearable CaT Pin (Conversation as Therapy pin), which uses number of words spoken in a day as a measure for social isolation, has won the $10,000 Designing for Ageing Well Challenge, co-sponsored by...

For Gwen, who lives in Bolton Clarke’s  Carrington residential community at Parkinson, south of Brisbane, learning new things is the key ingredient for a great year. At 71, the self-confessed “compulsive studier” and mature age university student already boasts no less than five qualifications across nursing, teaching, piano, horticulture and arts and is currently working...