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Queensland’s hard border with NSW and Victoria could be removed by Christmas after a record number of people were vaccinated over the weekend. More than 56,000 people rolled up their sleeves during the state’s Super Pfizer Weekend, with more still to be ...

Exposure to noisy traffic over a long period could cause dementia, according to new research. The study, published in the BMJ by researchers from Denmark, found that around one in eight cases of dementia in the country could be linked ...

A doctor infected with COVID-19 visited three aged care homes in Sydney, sending them into lockdown. The doctor visited SummitCare Penrith, Mountainview Aged Care Penrith and Anglicare Newmarch House – the latter was at the centre of a large COVID-19 ...

New research has found that 61 per cent of Australians would be willing to pay higher taxes to fund better quality aged care services. Funding has long been a contentious issue in the aged care sector. The government's response to ...

Newly found blood biomarkers could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more than a decade before symptoms start to emerge. A world first study from researchers at Macquarie University identified a protein in the blood which could lead to low cost screening ...

A city in the US will pay a $3 million settlement to a woman with dementia who was assaulted by police officers last year.  In June 2020, 73-year-old Karen Garner was violently arrested by police in Colorado after forgetting to ...

The Intergenerational Report 2021 called for productivity gains in all sectors as the most significant way of securing the economic future of Australia. So, would this also apply to aged care? Well, there’s spiralling demand with a shrinking, poorly paid ...

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care launched the Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021) at the 2021 Australasian Delirium Conference, aimed at preventing a condition which currently affects one in four medical patients. Delirium is defined as ...

Picture the scene. It's 2.00am and you're three coffees and two bags of m&ms down and you've lost count of how many laps of the ward you've done. You're on the first shift of a week of nights and sure, ...

The findings of the Health Department's 2020 Aged Care Workforce Census have been released and they tell the tale of an increasing, and increasingly younger, workforce. This is the fifth census of its kind, following four previous workforce data collections ...