Summary

This part has focused on the health of Jay Clark and Giani Calos, a gay couple living in Brunswick Heads. The first case study is on the health impact following Giani having a total knee replacement that has a significant impact on Giani’s active lifestyle and career as a drag queen. The second case study concerns equity and inclusion as the couple experience unprofessional, discriminatory behaviour from 2 nursing staff. Case study 3 involves Jay’s rapid decline as they find out he has dementia and the couple need to navigate the complex community care processes to get support. The fourth and final case study reveals the major challenges as the heavens open and major floods cause a devastating climate emergency. Jay and Giani’s health and wellbeing are at risk from these unpredictable major life events. As health professionals we need to be clinically skilled to optimise postoperative healing while being cognisant of the wider professional expectations as we encounter diverse people from all walks of life. The health impacts of climate change are going to continue to be a major priority for the future and we all need to consider how we can lead positive change for the wellbeing of individual, our communities and the planet!

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the expert guidance of Professor Mark Hughes, Professor of Social Work at Southern Cross University, who reviewed this part.

Image attributions

Images not individually attributed are listed below in order of appearance in the part:

Chapter 1.1

Brunswick Heads map by OpenStreetMap is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Katarina and Thiago image by Jonathan Borba on Pexels

Monty Carlo image by Esnehyder Mckullens on Pexels

Giani image by SHVETS production on Pexels

Jay image by Marcus Aurelius on Pexels

Jules image by gabananda on Pixabay

Quinn image by Pexels User on Pexels

Regan image by Pexels on Pixabay

Sasha image by Jeffrey Read on Pixabay

Chapter 1.2

Knee post-op image by Stephen Van Vorst is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Knee x-ray image by Stephen Van Vorst is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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