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The latest data released by the Productivity Commission shows that wait times for those needing to enter residential aged care have increased almost 50 per cent since 2016–2017. The report released this week also shows that those Australians waiting for the ...

American and Israeli scientists have found that drugs that quell inflammation in the brain could also slow and even reverse cognitive decline, which is associated with diseases such as dementia. Th researchers found that mice with cognitive decline were able ...

A new Australian study has found that people who live with chronic pain experience changes to their brain which can cause negative personality changes. The world first discovery found that people with chronic pain have smaller amounts of glutamate – the brain’s ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has taken the extraordinary step of releasing a statement contradicting claims by aged care minister Richard Colbeck that suggested the commission recommended privatisation of the ACAT assessment process. Since November, media ...

Loss of appetite and of enjoyment from food is a continuous struggle for people in aged care, as well as those who have faced serious illness such as cancer and neurological disorders. Altered eating – the term applied to the ...

I am the classic lapsed Catholic. Weekly trips to mass and Catholic schooling as a kid have given way to indifference, and now the only time I set foot in a church is for weddings and funerals. But perhaps if ...

“Ratios, ratios, ratios. Everybody will tell you that.” This was the response of aged care resident Merle Mitchell earlier this year at the royal commission when asked to nominate one thing she would change in the sector given the chance. ...

One in two aged care residents will have at least one fall each year. This figure goes up for those with dementia, as high as 90 per cent, and takes a massive economic toll on aged care homes, hospitals and ...