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American dementia expert Teepa Snow was in Australia recently to hold seminars on her ‘Positive Approach to Care Training Strategy’. The seminars are designed for aged care professionals and explores a positive approach to dementia care and the effective engagement ...

A team of aged care residents and local school kids have assembled in the fight against poor mental health. The team got together to build 200 paper aeroplanes that will be showcased at Newcastle Airport in October as part of ...

The government has released Australia’s Long-Term National Health Plan, promising to make the health system “the world’s number one”. “The story of health in Australia is sometimes viewed through the prism of large numbers, such as $435 billion for the ...

New data released today shows the rates of hospitalisations due to dementia have declined by almost a quarter over the last decade. In one of two reports released, The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) found that in the ...

Research by academics at Western Sydney University has found that nursing undergrads who work in aged care while completing their studies are learning valuable skills and enter the profession ahead of their graduate peers. The research surveyed new graduate nurses ...

The Australian Research Council and Deakin University have announced the opening of the ARC Research Hub for Digital Enhanced Living, which will look to find solutions to the growing need for better quality aged care. Using ‘smart home’ technology the research ...

At one point in time you can imagine everyone had a garden that they relied on for food. You might be old enough to remember that, or you might do that still, but having a garden is becoming all too ...

A researcher at the University of South Australia has called for more aged care homes to allow their residents to keep pets. Dr Janette Young, a lecturer in health sciences, made a formal submission to the aged care royal commission, ...