Do you have difficulty getting out of a chair, opening a jar or crossing the road? If yes, you may be showing signs of sarcopenia, which causes the accelerated loss or failure of skeletal muscle mass and function. An estimated ...

Quality of life measures in the aged care industry have typically relied on clinical indicators, such as an individual's weight, past medical history or prescription use. Professor Julie Ratcliffe from Flinders University led a team to interview 3,000 older Australians ...

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care launched the Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021) at the 2021 Australasian Delirium Conference, aimed at preventing a condition which currently affects one in four medical patients. Delirium is defined as ...

High rates of antibiotic misuse in Australian care facilities have raised concerns over the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance. A new analysis of 39 countries found that almost 70 per cent of residents in Australia are prescribed antibiotics annually, compared ...

Old age is not the end. At a time when meaningful ageing is a buzz term in aged care, researchers say that remaining engaged with meaningful activities as we get older can help us achieve just that. International experts led ...

Dental Health Week (2-8 August) puts a focus on oral care both for those at home and in residential aged care. For the ADA it’s a system that’s in need of urgent attention but for which it also has a ...

People with dementia entering aged care experience higher increases in medication when changing GPs, a recent study has found. UNSW researchers analysed data from 2,250 people with dementia who had entered residential care from the Saxs Institute's 45 and Up ...

In breakthrough research, scientists have discovered that older people with HIV have a higher prevalence of genetic blood cell mutations.  Researchers from the Kirby Institute found that 1 in 5 people living with HIV had ageing-related genetic changes, compared to ...

Aged care provider Whiddon will implement rapid COVID-19 testing at their largest aged care campus, Whiddon Easton Park in Glenfield, NSW. They'll use Rapid antigen tests: on-the-spot screening tests that detect antigens, or proteins, found on the surface of the ...

The Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) has launched a new education program to tackle abuse of older people. The new online learning package, Abuse of the older person: eLearning program for health professionals, was developed in collaboration with Age Discrimination ...