Union members, community groups, local government representatives and aged-care workers gathered outside NSW Parliament on Thursday ahead of a debate on the future of registered nurses in NSW nursing homes. Prior to the scheduled parliamentary debate following a petition of ...

A collision between the personal and the political. As a researcher and academic, I’ve often studied national budgets, demographic projections and care costs and written about paying for aged care. Now it’s become personal. Like so many others, we found ...

The global cost of caring for those with dementia is set to top US$1 trillion by 2018 and the total number of cases is set to reach almost 75 million by 2030, a new report has found. Launched by Alzheimer’s Disease ...

If the care provided by family members and friends of people who are aged, chronically ill or have a disability were provided by paid carers, the estimated cost would total $60.3 billion this year alone. That’s one finding of the Deloitte Access Economics ...

Nurses have angrily rejected comments from the NT health minister, after he argued that valuable research dollars were being wasted on extending the lives of ageing terminal patients at the expense of furthering treatments for children’s health. In an interview ...

The minister for health and ageing, Sussan Ley, has launched a three-pronged approach to support dementia research in the quest for new treatments, models of care and preventive measures. Ley announced $35.6 million in funding would go towards six dementia research ...

Australians are working later in life to make ends meet. By James Wells With the average Australian life expectancy increasing, a report shows more and more senior citizens are working to finance their retirement. Life expectancy rates are more than 80 years ...

The palliative care provider set to lead the nation’s first medical cannabis trial states that the pilot could help improve the care of people with advanced or terminal illnesses. The state government-funded $9 million clinical trial is aiming to determine what role medical cannabis can play ...