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How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home

Image: Shutterstock The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings...

Nursing home residents are paying $800 a week for services they are barely getting

Juniper Chrystal Halliday Residential Aged Care. Nursing home residents confined to their rooms during COVID are like hypothetical tenants locked in their bedrooms by landlords...

Budget package doesn’t guarantee aged-care residents will get better care

  Picture: Shuttlestock The big investment in aged care announced in last night’s federal budget – an extra A$17.7 billion over five years – is...

View from The Hill: Aged care crisis reflects poor preparation and a broken system

Picture: Daniel Pockett/AAP Scott Morrison wasn’t going to be caught out twice. In Hawaii during the bushfires, the prime minister had hesitated before returning...

‘Ageing in neighbourhood’: what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it

Seniors show pictures of what age-friendly homes and neighbourhoods mean to them. Photograph credit: C Osborne.,  Author provided (No reuse) The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp...

Listen To Older Voices : Honorene Olsen – Part 3

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with...

Listen To Older Voices : Peter Roussos – Part 2

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with...

Vital conversations: older women have their say about the challenges of life in a city like Melbourne

The ways in which older women maintain meaningful social connections are many and varied – in this case, they do volunteer work for...

Listen To Older Voices : Frank Foxcroft – Part 3

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with...

Listen To Older Voices : Frank Foxcroft – Part 2

Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.