Is your home liveable and adaptable so that you can age in place.
Read Secure My Treasures December 2024 newsletter to find out more? Hear about our first podcasting with Danielle Phillips on plans to help executors wind up estates. Most of us are near clueless about our responsibilities as executors. Danielle is sure to fill us in on what we need to know.
Dementia Australia – Hold the Moment Podcasts
Hold the Moment, is a podcast from Dementia Australia. It’s full of real stories about life after you receive a dementia diagnosis.
Hold the Moment, will introduce you to people who are actually living with dementia. You’ll hear how they manage challenges like telling others about their diagnosis and putting their affairs in order. There are also lots of useful tips on exercise, getting around and sleep.
Find out more here. https://www.dementia.org.au/hold-the-moment?s=03
Consider purchasing a subscription to Secure My Treasures. It’s a bank grade secure digital information safe that’s ideal for storing everything important in one place. We especially designed it for older people who are keen to stay independent and in control of their life for as long as possible. In Secure My Treasures, you can store all of your end of life wishes and documents, your wishes about what you want to happen to everything that is not in the will, all your photos and videos, messages for your loved ones and much much more.
International Day of Older Persons
The United Nations International Day of Older People is held on 1 October each year. This year’s theme is Ageing with dignity: The importance of strengthening care and support systems for older persons worldwide.
Secure My Treasures is deeply committed to supporting older people to live their best life. Click the Resources Tab on our website to scroll through a wealth of relevant resources.
We’re with myagedcare in celebrating the volunteer visitors scheme in aged care. The volunteer visitors scheme helps build social connection for people in residential aged or home care.
Find out more here https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/news-and-updates/see-how-aged-care-volunteer-visitors-scheme-creates-lifelong-friendships
Discount for Seniors and Carer Card Holders
Secure My Treasures is now a proud participating business in the Victorian Seniors Card and Carer Card programs. Over 1,300,000 Victorian Seniors Card Holders and 25,000 Carer Card Holders can appreciate a 15% discount on their first year subscription to Secure My Treasures.
Click Sign Up in the menu bar now to receive this offer.
Supporting RMIT Masters of Communications (Change) students
Secure My Treasures Directors, Char Weeks and Geoff Charles, went back to University last week.
This time we attended RMIT, not as students, but as subjects for a group assignment for the Masters of Communication (Change).
Thanks to Elizabeth, Singhou, Aaryn, Kripa and Shraddah for the very lively discussions. We very much appreciated your inquiring minds and interest in Secure My Treasures.
Ageism Awareness Day 9 October 2024
Ageism Awareness Day is an intiative of EveryAGE Counts. It is a reminder to all Australians that ageism is remains rife within the Australian community. Ageism has a direct adverse impact on the lives of many Australians in such areas as aged care, provision of health services and employment and is a contributing factor to elder abuse.
Join EveryAGE Counts webinar on 9 October 2024, End Ageism in Advertising. A panel discussion, moderated by EveryAGE Counts’ Chair Robert Tickner AO, is an opportunity to hear from leading experts about the prevalence and impact of ageism in advertising, and how we can all play our part to end ageism in advertising.
Secure MyTreasure is a proud member of EveryAGE Counts.
Read more here: https://aag.asn.au/EventDetail?EventKey=EAC241009
Who’ll care for your pet if something happens to you?
Concept, Design and Voice over: Cést Moi
Music: Kit Murphy
View our latest advertisement showing on 9 Now.
Read our August 2024 Newsletter
Newsletter highlights:
- Chrissie earns a University degree just before the clock strikes 70
- Our first advertisement runs on 9 Now during the Olympics
- Secure My Treasures Founder and Directors meet with their local MP
- Talking about identity verification for every day use in small business
- For those of you who live in natural disaster areas, please include Secure My Treasures as an important part of your evacuation plan.
- And our favourites from the Resources page at www.securemytreasures.com
Secure My Treasures first anniversary ad on 9 Now
We’re motoring toward Secure My Treasures’ first anniversary. In celebration, we’ve made this ad, appearing on 9 Now from 2-15 August 2024. Thanks to our team, our clients, mentors, colleagues and everyone who has supported on this amazing journey.
A huge thanks to the great team that made this advertisement:
Concept and design: Cést moi
Music: Kit Murphy
Voice over: Adam Dean.
Please feel free to share our ad if you like it.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAD) is held annually on 15 June 2024. It’s a sad day really. It’s a day when we face the harsh reality that 1 in 6 older people will experience elder abuse.
Everyone has a right to feel completely safe in their own home, surrounded by people they love and can trust.
Unfortunately, the majority of elder abusers are the children or grandchildren of older people. Elder abuse takes many forms including psychological, neglect, financial, physical and sexual abuse.
Stand up against the abuse, mistreatment and neglect of older people. Together, we can stop elder abuse.
Secure My Treasure is a great place to secure your vital information if you are at risk of elder abuse or any other form of domestic violence.
Find out more about elder abuse at Protecting the Rights of Older Australians
Palliative Care Week
This week, 19-25 May 2024, is Palliative Care Week.
Many Australians shy away from talking about death and dying. It’s tough to hear that a loved one is reaching the end of their life. And some miss out on receiving that very special end of life care, palliative care.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is high quality health care and support for people living with a life-limiting illness and their families. Palliative care is holistic and helps people to live as well as they can by managing pain and symptoms to ensure their quality of life is maintained as the illness progresses.
Find out more about palliative care from Palliative Care Australia, https://palliativecare.org.au/
#PAW It’s Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an annual event, led by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in partnership with state and territory privacy regulators and Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities members.
PAWs theme for this year is power up your privacy. There’s no better time than right now to better protect you and your family by reviewing how you think and practice privacy when it comes to all of your information.
At Secure My Treasures, we encourage your meticulous attention to privacy practice, not just once each year but every day of the year. As our clients already know, Secure My Treasures is vigilant about advance your privacy rights.
Download this fact sheet to enhance your privacy protections.
If you think that you have experienced gaslighting and white anting in the community where you currently live, we’d love to hear from you.
Hey! World Hand Hygiene Day is on 5 May 2024
World Hand Hygiene Day is a global initiative of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Held every year on 5 May 2024, World Hand Hygiene Day serves to raise awareness among health and aged care professionals about how good hand hygiene can help to prevent the spread of infection and save lives.
There are good reasons why healthcare consumers should also jump on board and support World Hand Hygiene Day.
You can be a great support to your healthcare team, your loved ones and yourself by making a habit of practicing good hand hygiene.
Did you know:
- Just by touching, your fingers can become a cesspool of contaminants.
- If you share your keyboard with other people, you could be sharing bugs like E.coli, S. Aureus or streptococcus that can make you very, very ill.
- The average desktop is roughly home to 400 times more bacteria than your average toilet seat.
- Bacteria and viruses that cause respiratory illnesses can live for up to 24 hours on any shared surface eg desk tops, lap tops, ipads, mobile phones, door knobs, scissors and even the can opener.
At Secure My Treasures we know that from time to time you will upload and secure large amounts of information in your Chests. We encourage all our clients to stay safe. Please wash your hands!
Not sure if your handwashing technique stacks up. Check out these 5 easy tips that appear in the image above.
Keen to find out more:
World Hand Hygiene Day. Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare. https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/infection-prevention-and-control/national-hand-hygiene-initiative/world-hand-hygiene-day
Could your keyboard have more bacteria than a toilet seat? Mallika Marshall MD
Our Program Partner, Acquaint offers premium home care
I caught up with Fiona Somerville, Managing Director of bespoke home care provider, Acquaint. I was bowled over Fiona’s warmth and amazing passion for delivering premium care for older people at home. It comes no surprise that Acquaint’s service is all about going above and beyond for every client. With its tailored services and absolute discretion, Acquaint is clearly a cut above the rest.
During our discussion, we mulled over the bigger picture around aged, home and community care. We thought about how people like to be independent and stay in their own homes as long as possible. We also thought about how ageing sometimes sneaks up on us. We could easily see the synergy between the services provided by Acquaint and Secure My Treasures
Secure My Treasures is your bank grade secure digital information safe. As a secure store for vital information, it’s an ideal way to keep track of important information as we age and before it’s urgently need. That way there is no panic about where vital information is when we are starting to lose our memory or are on the verge of going to residential care. You can even use it to keep track of your home care.
If you are working in aged care, click this link if you would like to know more about Acquaint.
And if you are an aged care or home care provider looking to offer your clients a value-added service, look no further than Secure My Treasures.
Out now! Secure My Treasures April 2024 Newsletter
Featuring:
Decluttering guru, Julie Cliff from Space and Time
Dougie’s story. How one young man struggled with the passing of his only living relative.
Secure My Treasures appearance on community radio 97.5FM, Business Matters, our membership of EveryAGE Counts and our submission to the Australian Government, Department of Home Affairs, Alternative Commonwealth Capabilities for Crisis Response.
Download and please share our newsletter Secure My Treasures Newsletter April 2024
Who knows where to find your loved one’s will?
Without a doubt, when a loved one passes away, questions will be asked about the whereabouts of their. A better question is, “Who actually knows where’s the will?” Wills can hide many places beyond a will safe, whether online or bolted into cement. Still, many wills go missing and still grieving friends and relatives can remain bereft about how to find them. And searching for a missing can be an exhausting, expensive, and, occasionally non-yielding undertaking.
In this video we encourage you to not only prepare yourself for the inevitable to prepare your loved ones.
Check out the latest of our YouTube videos, Who knows where’s the will?
Secure My Treasures FREE advisory service
From 1 April 2024, you’ll be able meet with us by Zoom for a FREE chat about Secure My Treasures.
If you are wondering if Secure My Treasures is right for you, book a meeting with us, using this link, https://calendly.com/securemytreasures/secure-my-treasures-advisory to explore your thoughts.
There’s absolutely no obligation to subscribe and you can ask us anything.
Wonder no more. You might be interested in:
- The protection that Secure My Treasures’ bank grade security offers.
- Our ID verification system that is accurate, quick and easy to use.
- Who, if anyone, should help you to set up your Chests and decide what copies of documents etc to upload.
- That it doesn’t matter if your vital documents are not ready or available today. You can slowly upload copies of documents, photos, videos and information in all formats over time
- Who should be asked to be trustee and what information they can see in your chests
- How to deal with a complex family when it comes to trustees and my Secure My Treasures.
Here’s the link again to book your free advisory session https://calendly.com/securemytreasures/secure-my-treasures-advisory
Secure My Treasures on community radio Merimbula, NSW
We were excited to be talking about Secure My Treasures on Rik Schnabel’s Business Matters on 97.5 Sapphire FM on Monday 12 February 2024 at 10am. We invited locals to join us after the show at the Waterfront Cafe in Merimbula from 11am. We shouted coffee as a thank you for those who came from everywhere to join us.
If you are an Australian organisation, not for profit, charity or a large loving family and you would like a presentation of Secure My Treasures, a meet and greet, community chat or a zoom session please email your enquiry to info@securemytreasures.com
Listen to our interview on Business Matters 97.5 FM with Rik Schnabel and Jacqui Smith on 12 February 2024, http://sapphirefm.org/podcasts/business-matters-2/
Presentation of Secure My Treasures to the residents of Rylands of Kew
Directors, Char Weeks and Geoff Charles, recently had the enormous pleasure of giving a presentaton with Q+A to the residents of Rylands of Kew. We appreciated our very engaged audience and the great discussion.
Rylands retirement communities offer residents a unique lifestyle. A life surrounded by friends, with familiar comforts, in neighbourhoods you know and love. Rylands of Kew is designed for people who want to retire in style, enjoy their freedom and lead an active life. Find out more at https://www.rylands.com.au/
Book your face to face or online presentation of Secure My Treasures now. Email us at info@securemytreasures.com
So why is Secure My Treasures different to other information safes?
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