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A new Australian study has found that, contrary to popular belief, cholesterol lowering drugs statins do not cause memory loss and may in fact slow cognitive decline. More than 1,000 elderly individuals were assessed over a period of six years ...

The royal commission finished its Hobart hearing with some ideas as to how better governance can go some way to fixing the poor practices currently seen across the sector. In his concluding remarks counsel assisting Peter Rozen alluded to the ...

A Tasmanian aged care home only cared about saving money and cutting staff hours under their “pathway to break even scheme” leaving residents neglected, the royal commission has heard. Southern Cross Care is one of Tasmania’s largest not-for-profit providers with ...

Laughter is the best medicine goes the old saying. A study from 2013 by researchers at UNSW, with help from the elder clowns from The Humour Foundation, seems to support this adage. They wanted to find out whether humour therapy ...

As an experience design specialist, it is exciting to so often be at the pinnacle of cutting edge solutions as they emerge for various industries. Usually, myself and my crew are at the centre of each new trend, together with ...

“I want to begin this hearing with a basic proposition. People living in rural, regional and remote communities of Australia ought to have the same levels of access to aged care as people living in metropolitan areas, and the aged ...

The royal commission’s interim report, titled simply Neglect, paints a grim picture of a sector devoid of caring and emotion and concerned only with the idea of itself as an “industry” that has “consumers” whose value is “defined by the ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety released its interim report yesterday and although it did not make any recommendations – it is saving those for the final report due next year – it laid down the gauntlet ...