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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has sat for 55 days so far, calling 296 witnesses. Of those, 85 per cent have given testimony on issues concerning the aged care workforce, with 113 witnesses providing their perspective ...

The discussion about the mental health of our older population is slowly coming to prominence yet the scale of the issue is not fully understood. Approximately half of all aged care residents exhibit symptoms consistent with depression, but these stats are likely ...

Researchers at Birmingham City University in the UK have found a link between the number of registered nurses on a ward and staff safety. The academics looked at three years of data from an NHS mental healthcare provider and found ...

The royal commission has heard from Heather Brown who described her fear of entering the “confinement” of aged care, which she and other Forgotten Australians see as another institution. Brown, 79, was taken as a ward of the state at the ...

Data. Big data. Using data. Gathering data. Protecting data. Modern life is data obsessed; data surrounds us and rules our lives in ways we mostly don’t see. Facebook and Google track what we engage with on the internet and target ...

The Royal commission started its second stint in Melbourne this week and is focusing on some of the sectors of society not yet heard from. “Diversity is a hallmark of humanity, yet aged care providers and the aged care system ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has released its annual report – Health Expenditure Australia 2017–18 – and it shows that out-of-pocket costs for individual Australians have risen 32.6 per cent. The report also reveals a slight increase in overall ...

Rural and remote communities face many unique challenges when it comes to healthcare. Well publicised is the fact that those living in these areas are at higher risk of major disease than their metropolitan counterparts. Access is a key barrier ...

Each week the residents at Sydney’s Twilight Aged Care home in Glades Bay look forward to singing and dancing like no one is watching when Moove & Groove silent discos hustle into town. The brainchild of founder and CEO Alison ...

"Look, we probably need to get you into this environment and see how you respond to it before you can actually make a decision yourself whether or not this is for you," they said to nurse Adam Spicer after his ...