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There is something truly significant missing from the Federal Government’s $17.7 billion aged care reform package: people.   While I support the intention of the reforms, I believe that its proposed investment in staffing – primarily focused on nursing, and ...

Dorothy Joyce McGillivary has been a Liverpool Library member for a long time. Since 1952 Dorothy has amassed a huge 14,000 books borrowed and the 96-year old holds the title as the library's longest-serving member.   Pretty much the minute she ...

A vaccinated nurse has tested positive to Covid-19 in Victoria as the state recorded three new locally acquired infections on Wednesday. The state’s health department announced five new local cases about 8.30am, but two of those were previously revealed on ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety outlined 148 recommendations for improvement. This leaves little doubt we will see great improvements in the quality of care for clients and residents. One of the biggest areas we need to ...

More than five million Australians have received the Covid-19 vaccine as the federal government announced GPs will be able to administer doses for people with disabilities and the elderly at their homes. Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt said 5.9 ...

Sportspeople who sustain repeated blows to the head throughout their career could be spared the onset of dementia as a consequence, after a world-first study identified a new drug that halts the post-concussion development of a protein that causes the ...

Regulators in the US have approved the first new medication for Alzheimer's in nearly two decades. Aducanumab is the first medication intended to slow cognitive decline in people in the early stages of Alzheimer's. It includes antibodies designed to attach ...

A Melbourne man has hit out at Coles over the way his father, who has Parkinson’s disease, was treated after struggling with using the QR code. Mark, a caller to 3AW radio, explained how his 70-year-old father attended the Coles ...

The federal government’s response to the outcomes of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is a recognition that the system needs to change. Superficially, there are aspects of the response that are encouraging and others disappointing, but ...

Experts hope that recommendations in a new technical report from the World Health Organization (WHO) will reduce global suffering and loss as a result of falls. The report, called “Step safely: Strategies for preventing and managing falls across the life-course”, ...