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Dental Health Week (2-8 August) puts a focus on oral care both for those at home and in residential aged care. For the ADA it’s a system that’s in need of urgent attention but for which it also has a ...

There’s nothing intergenerational about the Intergenerational Report 2021 (IGR). In fact, it seems to pitch generations against one another. If we’re over 65 we’re dependent and have to be looked after, if we’re under 65 we’re not productive enough, have ...

Older people are happier, more confident and form new friendships when they go on group excursions, a new study found. Researchers at Macquarie University studied a group of adults over the age of 65 who went on group trips such ...

Australia’s oldest man Dexter Kruger has passed away at the age of 111 and 188 days old. The author, former grazier and veterinary surgeon was born in Kilcoy in 1910, and celebrated the milestone of becoming Australia’s oldest man just ...

Two aged care homes in Sydney have returned positive COVID-19 tests among unvaccinated staff members. The NSW government announced on Thursday morning that two staff members at a Japara facility in the Sydney suburb of Belrose tested positive, alongside one ...

With the deadline for mandatory vaccination for aged care workers less than eight weeks away, over half of the workforce remains without at least one vaccine dose. At the end of June the PM announced that vaccination would now be ...

Aged care provider Whiddon will implement rapid COVID-19 testing at their largest aged care campus, Whiddon Easton Park in Glenfield, NSW. They'll use Rapid antigen tests: on-the-spot screening tests that detect antigens, or proteins, found on the surface of the ...

New government data shows that the average wait time for home care has fallen and more people have access to home care packages than this time last year. The home care packages program data report for the period January to ...

Researchers have found that eating only a handful of nuts each day keeps the brains of older people healthy. The study found considerable cognitive benefits for people over 60 who ate a half-to-one serving of nuts each day. "Eating a ...

New research by RMIT and Bolton Clarke has found a way of predicting whether a wound needs extra management, offering an early alert system for the most chronic wounds. Published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study shows that ...