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Jackie Broadbent
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Geriatrician NZ - community - research -health system - co design
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Study reveals gait retraining could help treat knee osteoarthritis
New research demonstrates how personalized walking patterns can slow cartilage degradation and deliver pain relief comparable to medication.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Senior fashionistas prove you're never too old to play dress-ups
Our Timeless Threads combines nurse Maia Willow's passion for vintage and pre-loved fashion with her experience as an aged carer, and it's bringing joy to the elderly.
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July 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Notes from a nursing home: ‘We don’t speak of sadness here’
June 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Inspiring talk by @graceinvaders.bsky.social on the importance of #meded and #geriatrics #education @healthnz.govt.nz @universityofotago.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Iwi Partner for Māori Dementia Care Centre
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March 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Bowel screening change ‘totally unethical’. Excellent explanation about why the government scrapping the Māori and Pacific age extension in the national bowel cancer screening programme goes against the science.

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Bowel screening change 'totally unethical' | E-Tangata
“We’re going to be left with people who go: ‘You know what, my uncle or my brother or my cousin died from bowel cancer. And it should have been picked up in a screening programme.’ Make no mistake, th...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Moderated by Professor Ngaire Kerse, this lunch time webinar will share informative interdisciplinary & lived experience perspectives from three presenters who will reveal how Universal Design sustains age-friendly participation in the built environment.

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Moderated by Professor Ngaire Kerse, this lunch time webinar will share informative interdisciplinary & lived experience perspectives from three presenters who will reveal how Universal Design sustains age-friendly participation in the built environment. NZAG Webinar - Streetscapes that optimise age-friendly participation: Collaborative insights What: NZAG Webinar When: Thursday 26 September 2024 12:00 pm to 1:00pm Where: Online
September 19, 2024 at 11:40 PM