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Small changes might be all providers need to make to improve job quality and the care provided in their services. This is the basis of a new toolkit that has been designed to assist aged care providers build sustainable, high-quality ...

Melburnians might have seen a group of aged-care residents skittering around the city’s suburbs and performing seemingly random tasks last month. Residents from Freedom Aged Care’s Hawthorn, Glen Waverley, Burwood, Cheltenham and Sandringham sites stopped strangers to ask for a ...

Fire. Floods. Earthquakes. Terrorist attacks. These events may not be part of a health professional’s typical working day but they might take over one. To help students and practitioners from different professional fields gain a common understanding of the principles ...

Delirium affects a quarter of older people in hospital and has the same death rate as a heart attack yet it is often missed or untreated by health professionals in hospitals, residential aged care facilities and the community. This concern ...

GPs and elderly women taking statins should regularly monitor for increased blood glucose, researchers have said. The call was prompted by research that linked the cholesterol-lowering drugs with an increased risk of developing diabetes among elderly women. Led by Dr ...

Are registered nurses on site at all times? Can I keep my preferred GP? Who will prescribe and review my medications? These are three of a range of questions the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) said people entering aged ...

Older Australians who use the internet daily are less likely to experience feelings of loneliness than those who peruse the web less often. This was one of the key findings the Whiddon Group has highlighted from its Social Isolation and ...

Members of the community should be proactive in asking aged care providers about the end-of-life care available within their service, the peak palliative care body has urged ahead of National Palliative Care Week. Palliative Care Australia (PCA) announced that the ...