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More than half of older people living in residential aged care facilities experience dementia. Those people with advanced dementia who can no longer participate in the traditional engagement programs offered within facilities are often socially isolated and without any meaningful ...

It’s well known that exercise is a key element to living a long and healthy life. According to a recent Harvard study, it can help with cholesterol levels, reduce the chances of having a heart attack, ward off dementia and ...

Private aged care providers operating in Queensland will be asked to publicly report staffing information. If they don’t, it may be published for them, should legislation proposed by the State Government go ahead. The move by premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is ...

A man who falsely claimed to be a nursing director at an aged care facility has been fined $60,000. The Victorian man was convicted in the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court last week of charges laid by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation ...

Ongoing diet and nutrition problems in the care of a Wollongong aged care resident and a lack of good wound care practices point to wider underlying problems within the sector. Those were some of the concerns raised by the resident’s ...

Lager. Ale. Stout. Or even a cheeky shandy. No matter the order, it was happy hour at Feros Care’s Wommin Bay village when a troupe of brewery workers donated their time and their beer to lift spirits at the aged ...

Now’s the time for those wishing to spotlight aged care work to submit a nomination for the 2019 HESTA Aged Care Awards. The gongs, presented by the super fund in partnership with the National Aged Care Alliance, were set up to ...

Support from family is often important to older migrants residing in ‘foreign lands’. This is especially so in later-life widowhood, where older migrants find themselves alone, without their spouses. This article is based on research with older, widowed Greek migrants in ...