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ACH GROUP ACH autumn 20 Issue 6 lifestyle magazine for 50+ eco warrior combined love of art and the environment WIN a remedial massage tech tips find out how an apple watch may help you, plus your chance to win your own! yoga a question of balance Welcome 34 Publisher ACH Group Production Manager Michelle Kelly Contributors Anna Randell, Themis Chryssidis, Sophie Thomson from the 9 Photos Michelle Kelly, Anna Randell, stock, supplied Feedback We appreciate your feedback. Please email us at [email protected] and let us know what you think. Alternatively post to PO Box 646, Torrensville 14 Plaza, Torrensville SA 5031 CEO About ACH Group Founded in 1952, ACH Group Dementia was also a focus for is a not-for-profi t organisation it is so wonderful to a group of Japanese aged care promoting opportunities and services to support good lives highlight one of our workers who visited ACH Group for older people. amazing customers on (page 18), a hugely benefi cial Subscribe connection we have with our To subscribe visit the cover. international community. achgroup.org.au/news/ Joy has a strong connection You can also fi nd out the goodlivesmagazine to her community through her or call 1300 22 44 77 benefi ts of yoga (page 16), many volunteering roles as how technology in the home contents well as social opportunities as can help you with your health part of ACH Group’s Riverside (page 28) and even how Artist program. Having the you can help ensure a more opportunity to exhibit in the sustainable future for our SALA Festival has enabled her global community (page 20). to sell her work and donate the 10 30 21 sales to charity (page 10). Happy reading! Speaking of art, you can also read about the residents of Colton Court residential home Feedback and Winners 4 70 years to celebrate 22 Community Garden 40 who come together with the children from the local Social Media 5 Artist in residence 24 Living with Dementia 42 Montessori Children’s Centre to 22 Henley Beach Rd, What’s On 6 Motorbike enthusiast 26 Fairy Gardens 44 Mile End SA 5031 create craft projects - all great ways to connect generations achgroup.org.au News and Views 8 Smart Home 28 Sta Profi le 46 within a community (page 34). 1300 22 44 77 Meet Lee, who is set to share Cover Story 10 Good Food 30 Real Estate 48 her inspiring story with the wider community at the Adelaide Fringe 14 In the Garden 32 Out & About 50 national dementia forum JOIN THE CONVERSATION (page 42) while others living Practice of yoga 16 Intergenerational Programs 34 with dementia are fi nding joy Japanese exchange 18 Healthy Feet 36 making fairy gardens (page 44). Frank Weits ACH Group Chief Executive Officer Sustainable travel 20 Join a Book Club 38 2 3 FEEDBACK Good LIVES MAGAZINE Join the Enter more competitions conversation on in this issue on pages 29 winners and 37. CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks for the overwhelming interest in our competitions! Thank you to Congratulations to the following winners: mary raman who shared with us her good lives magic little meals book: Lindi Brokenshire social magazine feedback mobile phone tripod & selfie stick: Elena Pike # – a $50 Coles voucher IS heading her way. We love to hear your mobile photo feedback. Keep sending your ideas via email to media entries to [email protected] or post to Good Lives win tripod & Magazine, PO Box 646, Torrensville Plaza, Torrensville selfie stick SA 5031 There was such a wonderful response wishing everyone a very property of the week - smart perry park retirement living to our mobile phone winning letter happy new year! move for retirement living. dog park opening. tripod & selfi e stick winner Good morning! Just a competition. Here note of congratulation to are just a few of the your team on a fabulous photos received. publication. My husband and I have our names down with ACH Elena Pike - Canada Group for a retirement home in the future; we are both still working and are in our early seventies. This magazine gives us, besides great reading, positive feelings about what can celebrating 2019 interNational when the bloom of the we are so excited to continue happen in this next stage of Volunteer day. jacaranda tree is here, our partnership with adelaide our lives! christmas is near. fringe for 2020. Steve Kenny - yellow rose Katrina Goczova - Yvonne Worden - – Mary Raman in the garden peacock feather butterfl y garden Editor’s note: Mary – we Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! Subscribe to our digital version of the magazine via thank you for your positive ACH GROUP ACHGROUP ACH_GROUP achgroup.org.au/news/goodlivesmagazine/ feedback. Of course we had to share it with our readers! 4 5 What’s On Good LIVES MAGAZINE march Tasting Australia what’s on ... What: Discover Australia and South Australia’s best food and wine through a variety of events, tours, and classes. One of Good Lives Magazine’s previous cover features, Cheong Liew, is one of the stars of this year’s Tasting Australia. When: 27 March - 5 April february Where: Various locations, Adelaide Stand Together - a celebration of friendship february More info: Dogs – a story of our best What: The Sing for Joy Choir When: 22 February tastingaustralia.com.au friend is returning with an even Where: Adelaide Festival What: Explores the history of bigger show based around Centre Writers Week may the importance of ageless dogs from a scientifi c/cultural friendships. More info: perspective and asks the What: Writers week is a Cirque Du Soleil’s Kurios When: 29 May to 7 June achgroup.org.au/events large and mostly free literary question, how did they evolve What: Cirque Du Soleil is Where: Cirque Du Soleil Big festival held annually in from wolves to our playful pals? back with their new show, Top, Adelaide Showgrounds, Adelaide. This exhibition is sure to make Kurios. A tale in which time Wayville. your heart sing. When: 29 February to 5 March february comes to a complete stop, More info: When: Running until 26 April Where: Pioneer Women’s transporting the audience Adelaide Fringe 2020 www.cirquedusoleil.com Where: South Australian Memorial Garden inside a fantasy world where What: The Southern Where: Various locations Museum More info: everything is possible. Hemisphere’s biggest open across SA access arts festival. More info: adelaidefestival.com.au/ More info: samuseum.sa.gov.au/event/dogs writers-week When: 14 February to 15 adelaidefringe.com.au March June (read more on page 14) Adelaide Cabaret Festival When: 5-20 June What: The biggest cabaret Where: Adelaide Festival March june festival in the world Centre, King William Street, History Trust of South highlighting local, national Adelaide Womadelaide 2020 Australia and international artists. More info: What: Join in the annual What: The History Festival adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au four-day festival of music, promotes our historical arts and dance that collections, places and stories celebrates cultural and through hundreds of events all year creative diversity. When: 1-31 May Jam Factory Free Tours When: 11am every Monday - When: 6-9 March Where: Various locations What: Go behind the Friday Where: Botanic Park, across Adelaide scenes, hear about the latest Where: Jam Factory, 19 Adelaide More info: exhibitions and meet the Morphett Street, Adelaide More info: historyfestival.sa.gov.au makers in the four studios. More info: womadelaide.com.au jamfactory.com.au 6 7 News and Views Good LIVES MAGAZINE THE national award good for student news program new high support dog park opening A new dog park at chair trial Perry Park retirement living Work to attract nursing “We’re so pleased that our Pre-placement education Aimed at improving the village has tails wagging students to aged care has e ort in demonstrating to touched on a range of areas quality of life for older and is creating community been recognised in a national students that working in including healthy ageing, people, new high support connections. The park has award. aged care can be a rewarding dementia, the admissions chairs will undergo trials been created in an enclosed ACH Group’s Student job and career has been process and relationship across ACH Group’s eight communal space with a recognised.” building. residential care homes over barbecue and seating, Placement Team was the the next 12 months. shading and dog water winner of the Team Innovation The team developed a “We want people to fountain. Category at the 2019 HESTA number of student placement understand that the aged care The support chairs were Aged Care Awards. initiatives to change student workplace is a place that’s designed by two ACH Group Research across the world Student Placement Manager perceptions, including a dynamic, and that it’s about nurses in collaboration with shows the positive e ects pre-placement day, an online supporting people to live a local company Comseat fringe partnership having a pet can have on Samantha Manoel said she was thrilled to win the award. orientation, induction booklet good life.” Australia as an alternative to ACH Group is excited to our bodies, minds and social and student evaluations. the traditional high support continue its partnership with connections. Pets can reduce chairs broadly used across the Adelaide Fringe for 2020. loneliness and depression, ACH Group’s health and aged care sectors. Adelaide Fringe and ACH Group relieve stress, lower blood The trial followed years of both believe in challenging pressure and provide Student research and development stereotypes, celebrating opportunities for social Placement Team after sta were unable to fi nd uniqueness and creating interaction and exercise.