A FREE swimming course for seniors in Bayswater is making such a splash, the City is looking at offering it on a regular basis. Run in conjunction with Royal Life Saving WA, the four-week Aqua Skills at Bayswater Waves gives the over-55s a refresher in swimming, water safety and lifesaving skills. Bayswater mayor Dan Bull…

Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best is back!  The WA Made Film Festival has officially announced the return of its Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best smartphone filmmaking competition.  Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best invites established filmmakers, independent filmmakers, students, and the general public to submit a mini-masterpiece…

THE under-fire WA health system is one of the sectors that would benefit from people being able to process their emotions better, says the newly formed Emotional Intelligence Society of Australia. Created by WA researchers and practitioners, including academics from the University of Notre Dame, the society aims to create a global network of individuals…

SENIORS featured heavily in the National Volunteer celebrations held across Perth last week. It’s no secret that retirees and the over 55s make up a large part of the volunteer army that help run countless services in WA including tourist attractions, community food  deliveries and libraries. So when covid struck last year, councils quickly became…

CURTIN University is looking for seniors with mild cognitive impairment to participate in its world-first trial Balance on the Brain. The large scale WA trial will investigate if innovative balance and movement exercises reduce cognitive decline, prevent falls, and improve quality of life in participants. For older people with no cognitive issues, balance programs can reduce…

AGE is no barrier to being active and sociable for 88-year-old Wally Meacock. Every morning he starts the day with a 6am ocean swim with the Port Beach Polar Bears in North Fremantle. Then on Thursdays he plays 18 holes of golf, and each month visits his local Probus Club to catch up with friends…

WHEN a couple seperate or get divorced, there’s often a messy tussle over who gets the kids, but where does that leave grandparents? In this month’s Seniors feature, Catherine Leach from Perth’s Leach Legal explains what access rights grandparents have to their grandkids after a break-up. CHILDREN have a right to spend time on a…

Local architect builds blueprints for dreams by Jane Grljusich Voice Promotions All his life, Neil Cownie has been combining his passion for design in all its forms – architecture, landscape, furniture, lighting and objects – with his clients’ aspirations – to realise their dreams in built form. His work is timeless, creating spaces that endure…

AS part of Hearing Awareness Week (March 1 – 7), audiologists are urging people not to persevere with unsuitable or inferior hearing aids. About 49 per cent of Australians aged 40 and over living with hearing loss are putting up with a hearing aid that doesn’t fully suit their needs, because they are worried that…