Asan
@asanakpan.bsky.social
Amateur photographer, Explorer and Geriatrician in Bunbury WA 🇦🇺❤️😊👍🏽
Walking allows you to capture some beautiful photos along the way. A day trip into Perth, the capital of Australia’s largest and wealthiest state, Western Australia 🇦🇺❤️😊👍🏽
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Confronting Ageism As A Driver Of Health Inequity | Health Affairs Brief
Ageism in health care delivery operates at both the health system and individual provider levels, causing adverse health outcomes for older adults, as well as excess health spending.
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Mixing sightseeing with some learning in Sydney. Each time I visit I am drawn to the botanical garden and the Opera house 🇦🇺❤️😊
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The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
“If you can fall in love again and again … if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you’ve got it half licked.”…
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Weekend in Sydney for an update on Alzheimer’s dementia diagnosis and treatment. In between aim to see the Opera house, the bridge and botanical garden🇦🇺❤️😊
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What end-of-life experts know about living well: love your wrinkles, celebrate birthdays and don’t obsess over work
How can our understanding of mortality shape the way we live? Palliative care doctors and death doulas share the lessons they have learned
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Today I swapped my provisional for a full unrestricted WA licence—no more red P, no more green P, just pure, unadulterated freedom. For two years,I drove so cautiously I once let a cyclist overtake me. So here's to WA, here's to zero demerits, and here's to more road trips 🇦🇺😊🏎️👍🏽
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From memory clinics to Brain Health Services: implications for older adults and the future of cognitive care in Europe - European Geriatric Medicine
Aim To explore the implications of transitioning from traditional memory clinics to Brain Health Services (BHS) for older adults, and to advocate for a geriatric-informed, equitable, and function-orie...
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With my decades of experience & insights from navigating resource constraints in geriatric medicine and the RACMA leadership for clinicians program, I have plenty to offer to continually improve the MDT care we deliver to our senior citizens in the southwest region of Western Australia🇦🇺❤️😊🙏🏾
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Advancing social justice in healthcare publishing: a call to action
In today’s rapidly evolving health and social care landscape, healthcare has become increasingly complex, requiring a grounding in both science and the arts. Integrating these perspectives creates spa...
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I had the pleasure and honour to be a guest speaker via zoom at the London school of economics delivering a presentation on healthy ageing to legislators from Delta State in Nigeria organised by the African Parliamentary Resource centre 🇳🇬🇬🇧🇦🇺🌍😊👍🏽
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What the world’s happiest countries can teach us about joyful living | New Scientist
As editor of the World Happiness Report, few people know more than Jan-Emmanuel De Neve about what makes a country happy. He reveals what we can learn from the nations where people feel the most conte...
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I have lived in 5 countries (spread over 4 continents) including Australia now. The diversity of cultures and experiences has enriched my life, my mind & soul and given me something very precious in how I relate to fellow human beings for which I am eternally grateful 🌍❤️😊🙏🏾
The courses I have completed recently will continue to improve my contribution to the care of our senior citizens in the southwest of Western Australia. I am grateful to my employer for professional study leave including all travel, accomodation & course registration expenses😊
