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“You don’t know.” Jac Mathieson, the chief nursing officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, found herself saying this a lot when talking about the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, soon to be law in Victoria. In this instance she was asked, ...

This issue of psychotropics has been front and centre during the Royal Commission, but not much time has been devoted to the reason behind its use, mental illness. Approximately half of all aged care residents exhibit symptoms consistent with depression, ...

Young onset dementia (YOD) is a term describing any form of dementia diagnosed in people under 65 years of age. Little is known about why it occurs among this age group, and, as it is less common, it can be ...

Craig Gear recently gave a speech about the benefits of his outfit, Older Persons Advocacy Network, as well as ways in which the aged care industry can restore public confidence post-royal commission. Speaking to attendees at Australian Heathcare Week, Gear ...

“My kids will kill me for this,” Dan Levitt told the nurses in the crowd at his Australian Healthcare Week talk. “DAY-OH” he sings. The tickled crowd responds in kind. “DAYYYY-OOOHHH,” he continues and goes on to complete the attempt ...

With a federal election looming, the Greens have announced a funding model for aged care, a component of their ‘human rights-based approach to funding’. Part of their package will provide funding for 50,000 new level 3 and 4 home care packages, ...

Latin is not a dead language when it comes to dementia design. The phrase salutogenesis is a word that guides the philosophy of Dementia Training Australia (DTA) and is derived from the Latin for health – ‘salus’, and for source – ...

The 9th annual Australian Healthcare Week began in Sydney last week, and nursing and aged care were front and centre. Early in on the first day, the conference was given an economics rundown by Westpac senior economist Matthew Hassan, and despite slow ...