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Fred was a resident with Alzheimer’s disease living at one of our aged care homes. He was a quiet man; in fact, Fred had not spoken for years. Like many people with dementia he became agitated and upset, particularly around ...

Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians Ken Wyatt has announced a Department of Health higher up will head the new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. Janet Anderson will lead its establishment as it prepares to begin operations from ...

A rating system for facilities and requirement for there to be one registered nurse on site at all times have been listed among the recommendations of an inquiry into the aged care system. Released this week by the Health, Aged ...

Chelsea aged care residents are among the newest Australian record holders thanks to 10,000 colourful pompoms. A team from Lifeview Argyle Court in Chelsea created the nation’s longest line of pompoms. Originally setting their sights on 7,777 pompoms to leverage off ...

Few older adults who self-harm in the UK are being referred for a specialist mental health assessment following a GP visit, a new study has found. Published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, the large observational study found that around 90 ...

The existing regulatory oversight of the aged-care sector has badly failed Australians and a new body alone won’t fix the issue. That’s what Labor’s message to government boiled down to regarding the establishment of a new watchdog for the sector. ...

Changing attitudes to ageing has to happen; that’s a given. But, how it happens and when is the challenge being taken up by the social campaign, EveryAGE Counts. The anti-ageism campaign, which is the brainchild of the Benevolent Society, but driven ...

Australia’s grandmothers are typically happy to take on child-minding duties but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from becoming overburdened, the authors of a new report have reminded families. Just under two-thirds (60 per cent) of women in their mid-sixties and ...