Health

Challenging perspectives of the elderly

Posted on: Mon 8 May 2017

Today on Service Voices, Vanessa Leane, a well-being practitioner in a new field pioneered by positive psychology, joins us to chat about the strength-based approach to empowering the lives of older people. It impacts the way people communicate and interact with our senior citizens.

Interviewer: Fiona White

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