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Experts discuss some of the best upgrades for improving sustainability and wellbeing. Aged-care providers are turning to external experts and their own team members to find ways of updating existing infrastructure to improve sustainability. Town planner and board member of the ...

Social isolation was found to be a major issue associated with a diagnosis of dementia, new findings have shown. Alzheimer’s Australia’s report Living with Dementia in the Community: challenges and opportunities, launched at the group’s Parliamentary Friends of Dementia meeting ...

Teacher demonstrates simple exercises that can produce extensive health benefits.  He’s an academic, researcher, clown doctor, teacher of tai chi and qigong – Bernie Warren is teaching people the world over to “breathe and smile”. Warren recently visited Victoria-based Emmy ...

A security expert says many aged-care facilities aren’t as safe as they should be and offers some technology and techniques to improve. By Amie Larter Aged-care facilities are easy pickings for criminals, compared with many other places of work and ...

Compliance software product plays role in success for multiple winners. By Dallas Bastian A governance, risk and compliance software company and one team that implemented its product were both big winners at the Information Technology in Aged Care (ITAC) 2014 ...

The ability to create real and supportive communities requires an intimate understanding of the experiences of all users and how this knowledge can shape design. Such skills are becoming even more important in our increasingly regulated and competitive environment. A ...

A documentary that details the close relationship between staff, residents and their families as part of one provider’s approach to residential aged care is drawing international attention. It Takes A Community – A relationship-focused approach to celebrating and supporting old age ...

A project that helps aged-care residents check things off their bucket list has been honoured by the government. UnitingCare Ageing’s Starrett Lodge was given a Better Practice Award by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency for the program. Colin McDonnell, care ...