Death remains the inevitable conclusion to the lives of all of those who reach advanced old age. And despite all the advances of modern medicine, it also continues to end the life of those who won’t ever get to grow ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is calling for a national program that would see pharmacists embedded in aged care facilities. A report by PSA shows that 98 per cent of aged care residents have at least one medicine-related incident and ...

Whiddon is a large not-for-profit organisation that operates residential aged care, community care and retirement living, with 19 facilities scattered throughout NSW and parts of Queensland. Whiddon has been a proponent of the person-centred care model since 2015, its chief executive ...

In the years 2017–18, just over 47 per cent of Australians had one or more chronic conditions. This is an increase of five per cent from the 2007–08 figures of just over 42 per cent. Chronic disease accounts for 37 ...

Today, the government ushers in new standards in the aged care sector with the Aged Care Quality Standards and Charter of Aged Care Rights both coming into force. Minister for aged care, Richard Colbeck, said the “major reform package” will ...

For many years now, the UK has had to adapt to an increasingly under-funded home care market, which has led to ever tighter eligibility criteria for people to be entitled to state-funded care and increasingly shorter episodes of care – ...

Aged Care Allocation Round (ACAR) 2019 released 13,500 residential aged care (RAC) places made up of 63 per cent in capital city metro areas and 37 per cent in regional and remote areas. Given that 32 per cent of the ...

Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, and to better understand the disease research is vital. Finding willing people for trials and research can be difficult for academics and studies show that of terminated dementia clinical trials, ...