by Genevieve McLachlan | Aug 6, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Accessible Accommodation, Articles, Health Services, Medical Condition, Research
This is a really interesting article on how Architects are using Virtual Reality glasses to help them design dementia-friendly environments. For people with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, just navigating around the house can be difficult and...
by Genevieve McLachlan | Jul 9, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Adaptive equipment, Assistive technology, Health Services, Medical Condition, People with Disabilities, Research
This Community Care review talks about how significant savings could be made in health and aged care expenditure by boosting government investment in assistive technology and is equally relevant here. Read the full report...
by Genevieve McLachlan | Apr 9, 2018 | Articles, Medical Condition, Visual Impairment
This article featured in the NZ Optics April newsletter. Trevor shares his experience of being diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa and loosing his sight. Sight loss, I discovered, is such a gradual process that it’s generally detected by others before the victims...
by Genevieve McLachlan | Apr 6, 2018 | Access Citizen, Articles, Medical Condition, Traumatic Brain Injury
This storey appears in Life Unlimited’s quarterly newsletter and demonstrated the determination by one woman to realize her dream. Eltje Malzbender has been to hell and back since crashing off her bike while cycling on an isolated King Country road two years...
by Genevieve McLachlan | Mar 19, 2018 | Access Citizen, Accessibility, Adaptive equipment, Health Services, Medical Condition, People with Disabilities, Social Change
Go Hamilton City Council! They have funded the first Changing Places bathroom in NZ at Hamilton Gardens which just opened a couple of weeks ago. Take a look – it’s incredible! It’s a basic human need, but one that’s rarely adequately met for a certain...
by Genevieve McLachlan | Mar 14, 2018 | Education, Epilepsy, Health Services, Medical Condition
One person in 20 will have an epileptic seizure at some time in their life. The World Health Organisation states that “Epilepsy is the most common serious brain disorder worldwide with no age, racial, social class, national nor geographic boundary.” Yet, the condition...
