Good oral health is an intrinsic part of overall wellbeing for people of all ages, but is particularly important for Australia’s elderly population. Poor oral health can impact quality of life and contribute to life-threatening conditions such as malnutrition or ...

More should be done to ensure that people with dementia who are appropriate candidates are offered the opportunity to trial antidementia medication. This is the opinion of a new study looking into antidementia medication usage in Australia. The study found ...

Residential aged care facilities can be doing more to treat osteoporosis and can do better to prevent falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. These are the conclusions from a new study looking at anti-osteoporosis medication use in aged care. The study also ...

In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation. Add to this the 160,00 Australians who die each year – 70 per cent due to expected causes – a ...

“Dying is an art, like everything else.” So said Sylvia Plath in her poem, Lady Lazarus. And like any art, it is often hard to fathom what works best: and with dying we only get one chance to get it ...

What if changes to policies, procedures and culture in long-term aged care could reduce unnecessary antibiotics and improve consumer care and antimicrobial stewardship in the future? Many consumers of long-term care are prescribed antimicrobials that are for unconfirmed infections. Urinary ...

Bidyadanga is a small town in the Kimberley region of WA. Approximately 1590km north of Perth and 180km south of Broome. It is the definition of a remote Aussie town. It’s home to around 800 people with five different language groups, and ...

“You don’t know.” Jac Mathieson, the chief nursing officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, found herself saying this a lot when talking about the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, soon to be law in Victoria. In this instance she was asked, ...