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		<title>The Mystery of Conrad and Alan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conrad, Fabio and I used to visit a gent by the name of Alan at a local nursing home. Alan was 94 when he passed. For a few years our lives were enriched by Alan who was in frail health but always had a joke and a twinkle in the eye. He was a real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November Australian Pets and People Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<title>We love Our Elders But Not This One!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice way of exercising to take your dog with you while you do the shopping and judging by the number of dogs I see waiting outside the supermarket, staring fixedly through the window,&#160;a lot of people enjoy it.&#160;&#160; But be warned!&#160; According to the local police there&#8217;s a kidnapping scam going on. &#160;You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Towel Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our work with the aged and disabled&#160; we come across some funny stories.&#160; Believe it or not, at one time a telephone was a luxury. Back in the days when women were at home doing the nation&#8217;s child raising and all the other essential services some call house wifery, they were also building community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toby and Fifi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifi is an 11 year old Maltese terrier who was the constant companion of an elderly woman, Mary, with no other close family except her husband who lived in a nursing home because he suffered from dementia. It wasn&#8217;t long, however, before Mary&#8217;s health declined and she ended up in hospital. Mary was lucky &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this How We Repay Them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday&#160; September 18, we were on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne along with another 5 thousand good people to support a ban on puppy farms.&#160; Puppy farms are hell holes where dogs are kept confined in filthy cages and sometimes bred to death.&#160; They are kept pregnant and the puppies are sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Companion animal support programs&#160; for the elderly and disabled living at home seem to be sprouting up everywhere!&#160; And not before time.&#160; We all know how good pets are for us.&#160; Health and happiness improve in a positive relationship with a pet.&#160; Aged and disability services are finally recognizing the benefits to their clients and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for client assessment to include companion  animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companion animals are certainly acknowledged in the aged and disability sector&#160; &#8211; but almost always in the negative.&#160; As far as we know, the vast majority of assessment templates, whether for HACC programs or CACPS and so on acknowledge a client&#8217;s pet but primarily as an OH&#38;S risk.&#160; This is not a true reflection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care Homers and Sheltered Accomodation (domestic Pets) Bill</title>
		<link>http://realanimals.com.au/2011/09/care-homers-and-sheltered-accomodation-domestic-pets-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to say folks, this is not a local development.&#160; The Bill &#8211; driven by Nick Palmer, MP and Nigel Waterson, MP is one currently proceeding through the U.K Parliament with all party support.&#160;&#160; The Bill will make it lawful for people going to permanent care in the UK to take their pet.&#160;&#160; Apart from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aged and disability care programs</title>
		<link>http://realanimals.com.au/2011/09/aged-and-disability-care-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realanimals.com.au/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pets are proven to be beneficial to health and happiness.&#160; But, the elderly and disabled living at home often struggle to maintain their relationship with their pets.&#160; Walking the dog, driving to the vet or groomer and anxiety over what will happen to a pet if they have to go to hospital or respite are [...]]]></description>
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