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Late last month the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Ken Wyatt announced new steps to improve aged care for LGBTI seniors. The Aged Care Diversity Action Plan for senior LGBTI Australians is aimed at catering to the needs of ...

Here’s a simple idea for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Let’s try and assist as many older people as possible to stay at home to receive their care. To help this along, we should try to ...

More than 300 people attended the Aged Care Royal Commission’s community forum at the sprawling Bankstown Sports Club in Sydney on Friday 1 March. Commissioner Lynelle Briggs attended the event, which she said was the first of its kind held for any ...

Quiet and private, or isolated and hard to manage. These are the flipsides in the increasing argument for and against single occupancy hospital rooms. There is a growing trend internationally for single occupancy rooms, but the dearth of literature in ...

A new pilot study coming out of the UK has found that one extra meal a day can cut the deaths of those who suffer hip fractures in half. The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s hip fracture quality improvement programme noted ...

In the final two days of the first hearing of the royal commission we heard from the people affected by the system itself and had a summary of the proceedings to date. Kaye Warrener described to the commission the near ...

Associate professor Eddy Strivens gave witness testimony to the first hearing of the Royal Commission. As the president of the Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, Strivens was called to give background on some issues facing the sector and, ...

It is often debated whether life imitates art or vice versa. But a new multi-media initiative by the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is using the art of film to inform and project life’s realities. Moving pictures is a collaboration between NARI ...