New research from the University of East Anglia in the UK claims that a new mobile phone game can predict which people are at risk of Alzheimer’s. The research studied how people who are genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s play the ...
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“Eleanor Rigby died in a church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came.” That is the story of lonely people according to The Beatles and was inspired, in part, by the old women Paul McCartney encountered on a ...
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has released its second background paper as it aims to get to grips with the problems facing the sector. Titled Medium- and long-term pressures on the system: the changing demographics of aged ...
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Better working conditions, increased spending and overall reform based on co-design principles is urgently needed in the aged care sector. That is according to a new report delivered by the Work and Family Policy Roundtable – a multi-disciplinary network of ...
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Labor leader Bill Shorten has announced that older Australians will have access to $1000 worth of dental services each year if his government is elected on May 18. He told a party rally in Melbourne on Sunday that a Labor ...
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In the wake of the Royal Commission and a perceived skills shortage in the sector, the University of Wollongong, in partnership with Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, have released the Gerontological Nursing Competencies (GNCs) framework. The framework provides an evidence-based ...
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The South Australia Government has announced an Australia-first trial of CCTV installation across at least five aged care facilities in the state over a 12-month period. The government will invest $500,000 into the trial to be run by UK firm ...
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The inaugural Health Minister’s award for nursing trailblazers has been awarded to a Canberra nurse for her work in improving the delivery of palliative care to Australians living in residential aged care. Nikki Johnston, a palliative care nurse practitioner based ...
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