A friendship shared by two Melbourne-based artists has led to the creation of a series of portraits that explores the human condition and realities of ageing. For the past 30 years painter and sculptor Peter Wegner has met with fellow artist Graeme Doyle to ...

A recent report on the aged care workforce has shone a mostly positive light on the future of the industry but more work needs to be done to ensure its viability, industry peak bodies have said. The National Institute of ...

Robert Horspool was 50 when he was made redundant from his career as an IT specialist in banking. He used this setback as an opportunity to explore new possibilities, reskilling in aged care. He now works at Just Better Care ...

Employers have an important role to play in the prevention and response to family violence, an Australian aged care provider has said. Benetas was announced as one of 27 employers to be accredited as a White Ribbon Workplace, bringing the ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, professor and ...

Drugs that target the body’s nerves could become a new way to treat cancer, an Australian biochemist says. Researchers at the University of Newcastle have found evidence of a physical link between the nervous system and cancer tumours. “We and other ...

A 12-year trial headed by University of Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer Research lead surgeon professor Andreas Obermair has concluded that keyhole surgery should be the preferred standard of care for women needing a hysterectomy as a result of endometrial ...