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Aussie researchers hope getting new prevention guidelines into the hands of GPs will help reduce rates of dementia. Professor Kaarin Anstey, a senior principal researcher at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and UNSW, said GPs are well positioned to play a significant ...

For the first time an exercise park has been installed in a residential aged care facility in Victoria with the aim to help residents to improve their strength, balance and mobility. This is the third exercise park established under the ...

Australians still don’t trust aged care. The 2019 Inside Aged Care report, which samples 1547 people across Australia, revealed only 20 per cent of Australians trust the industry. This was in line with the findings from the previous year’s report, ...

Governor-General David Hurley has signed off on a request from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety for an extension of six months, Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck has announced. Colbeck also named an additional commissioner – retired ...

I’m a TV producer and director and somehow, I always knew I would make a film about my dad, the charismatic Western Australian artist Leon Pericles. But I never anticipated that the real star of the film would be my ...

Australian researchers are looking into ways to shift the weight gain associated with shift work. University of South Australia researcher Dr Crystal Yates said the nature of working at night makes it harder for people to maintain a healthy weight ...

Aged care minister Richard Colbeck has announced a bump in funding for entry-level home support, but aged care providers says the sector is being drip fed. Colbeck said $150 million in government funding will be spent over three years to enable more ...

At the recent ACN National Nursing Forum Georgina Willetts gave the key note speech on nursing’s past, present and future. Willetts joined the profession aged 17 because she “didn’t want to go to university,” and had no aspirations of leadership or pursuing a ...