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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety starts again this week in Melbourne and will focus on how younger Australians fare in the aged care system. Testimony will be heard from a number of people under the age of ...

The Palaszszuk-led Queensland government made good on its promise to improve transparency among the private aged care facilities in the state, with the introduction of The Health Transparency Bill to state parliament. If passed, the bill will enable the collection and publication ...

Recent estimates put the cost of pressure injuries to the health system at $983 million per annum, representing approximately 1.9 per cent of all public hospital expenditure or 0.6 per cent of the public recurrent health expenditure. In aged care, the average daily ...

A new study has found that we can train our brains to be better at multitasking as we age with some simple practice. As we age, multi-tasking becomes more troublesome. Keeping a conversation while completing another task can be difficult, ...

“Maureen, hurry up!” Michaela urges her friend. Aiden does much the same with his older buddy Eric, who has sat down to rest. “We are coming last,” he tells Eric as he pleads for him to carry on. This scene ...

Adelaide start-up Lumary is a workflow management platform aimed at streamlining processes for workers in the aged care and disability space. The brainchild of founders Joseph Mercorella and Matthew English, Lumary was conceived during their time in the IT department ...

The Australian Journal of Rural Health has released a special issue this month that focuses on growing old in rural, regional and remote Australia. Made up of 13 research papers, the journal shows that ageing is about more than just ...

Neuroscience Research Australia has launched a new app it says can predict falls in older Australians with better than 75 per cent accuracy. The FallScreen+ app is a wellbeing assessment tool that draws on NeuRA’s vast research into the ageing ...