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Life Stages and Events
Life is full of events that can affect your health - some can occur at any time and some are related to particular stages. The Life Stages and Events area offers you information clustered around those events that may significantly affect your life. Family Life, for example, links to information ranging from family nutrition to information on babies, toddlers and parenting.
So, if you need to find out more about a particular stage of life, just choose that stage from the timeline. If you need information about an event that could occur at any point in time, select a topic from the list below.
Reviewed September 2011
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Links to information on how to cope with unexpected events, such as accidents and the onset of diseases.
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Links to information about disasters, such as bushfires, floods, earthquakes and droughts.
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Links to information about medical emergencies.
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Links to information on health issues associated with employment, including unemployment and workplace safety.
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Links to information about some of the issues associated with family breakdown and divorce, such as custody of the children, emotional crises and starting a new family.
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Links to information about family life, including adoption, family nutrition, family breakdown, parenting and child health issues.
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Links to information about starting school and school related issues such as exams, friendships, and options when it comes time to leave school.
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Links to information about treatment in hospitals, including links to topic pages on anaesthesia and hospitalisation for mental illnesses.
Injuries and Injury Prevention
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Links to information on specific types of injuries, as well as information about how to prevent injuries and stay safe.
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Links to information on living with disabilities.
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Links to information on living with illness in general, specific illnesses, support groups, and nutritional information.
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Links to information on maintaining health and health issues related to menopause, including the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
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Links to information on health issues for people in their late 40s and 50s until early sixties, such as fitness, nutrition, and health checks.
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Links to information on pregnancy and the health of pregnant women.
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Links to information on puberty.
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| Title: | Intercountry adoption - physical health |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Children who have been adopted from overseas have been used to different physical conditions and different foods from the country they are adopted into. Some child may have health conditions that are not usual in their new country. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Intercountry adoption - emotional health |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Most children who have been adopted from another country do well with loving parenting but there are are differences. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Leaving home |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | To leave or to stay? At some time, often in their late teens or early twenties, young people decide to leave home. The ideal situation would be where the move is by mutual agreement, with parents and the young person feeling that the time is right. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Leaving home |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | This fact sheet contains information about making the decision and preparing to leave home. |
| Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Title: | Loss and grief |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Loss and the grief we feel can give us a whole lot of intense feelings. It is natural to feel overwhelmed with pain, even angry or numb. This article is about dealing with the grief after the loss of someone or something really important to you. It looks at doing things in your own style, your own time and in a healthy way |
| Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Title: | Cancer - living with it |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Almost all of the people who get cancer are adults, and mostly they are older adults. But sometimes children and young people get cancer. |
| Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Title: | Coping with change - loss and grief |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | This topic is about losing things that are very important to you. It is about times when something or somebody that you care about isn't there any more. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Friendship - how to make new friends |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Making new friends can be difficult but also rewarding. Life events, such as moving to another neighbourhood, starting a new job or having a baby, can isolate us from our former support group and make developing new friendships more important than ever. Some tips can help to make new friends over time. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Telling someone big news |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | This fact sheet has information about things to keep in mind when you're planning to tell someone big news. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Moving in with your partner |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | This fact sheet explores moving in with your partner and how to make the transition run smoothly. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Step-families |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Building a new family is an exciting but challenging time. It needs a lot of time, energy and hard work. There are many different kinds of stepfamilies and each will have different strengths to build on and difficulties to overcome. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Optimism |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | some of the most valuable things children need cannot be bought. One of the best things parents can give their children is a healthy attitude to living. Optimism |
| Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Title: | Aboriginal - step-families |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Step families are usually decided by two adults who want to be together. The kids may not share the same feelings about it. This building of a new partnership is an exciting but challenging time. It needs a lot of time, energy and hard work. |
| Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Reminiscence therapy for dementia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | RT involves the discussion of past activities, events and experiences, with another person or group of people. This is often assisted by aids such as videos, pictures, archives and life story books. Four randomized controlled trials suitable for analysi... |
| Date: | Feb 2005 |
| Title: | Sad feelings after childbirth: a 'hidden' problem |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW) |
| Description: | Symptoms and help for women suffering from post natal depression. |
| Date: | Sep 2001 |
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