Inspiring healthy & happy living
A collection of writing from the broader BallyCara community, all dedicated to our Sona Ethos and inspiring healthy and happy living!
In the final of our three articles celebrating Exercise Right week, Elise Edwards lays out how exercising can maintain balance and prevent falls. Read part one on exercising for a healthy brain here, or read part two on...
This is the second of three articles penned by BallyCara’s esteemed Exercise Physiologist, Elise Edwards, in the run up to Exercise Right Week. This week’s article explores exercise and its connections to cancer management. Cancer. The big C....
In the first of three blog articles celebrating the lead up to Exercise Right week, one of BallyCara’s esteemed Exercise Physiologists, Elise Edwards, details how exercise can keep you mentally healthy. Happiness and fulfilment can ultimately be achieved...
Written by BallyCara’s Executive Chairman, Marcus Riley. Our aged care system for the future must have wellness as its centrepiece of service delivery. Wellness must be established as the golden thread of a system to ensure meaningful outcomes...
Ruth Falconer is a qualified art therapist that has worked with people from all over BallyCara. She has taken some time out of her busy schedule to reflect on the immensity of her work. Creativity. We are all creative beings;...
Erynne Casey, Bachelor of Social Work Student (soon to be graduate), shares more of her placement experience at BallyCara. Three months have flown by since starting my student placement at BallyCara. Experiencing life as a social worker with...
As 2020 draws to a close, Lachie Green reflects on how BallyCara has made the most of a “once-in-a-lifetime” year. I think it’s fair to say that 20-20 vision was impossible for the year 2020. “Unprecedented”, “extraordinary”, and “once-in-a-lifetime”...
As Caras’ & Co. Wooloowin comes up on its first Christmas, the staff (Dave Hagger – EP, Jhenai Lockett – CSO, and Shelley Spence – CSC) take some time to reflect on what makes Wooloowin so magical. Caras’...
Claudette Dubois (below) is a Home Care Support Worker who works in BallyCara’s Melbourne Region. Here, she reflects on her personal experience with Victoria’s prolonged lockdown. To be completely honest, I didn’t mind the lockdown. I felt this...
A reflection by Kathy Wright as she concludes two decades of work in the aged care sector, and a six-year term at BallyCara. As I approach my resignation and retirement from working 20 years specifically in the Aged Care...