When Paro the robotic seal was launched a few years ago it generated widespread coverage. Now Griffith University has published research to show that even robotic animals can have significant, albeit modest, benefits for those with dementia. The research, published ...

Playing violent “shooter” video games can damage the brain and might even increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers claim. A study has shown habitual players of action games have fewer neurons in their hippocampus, a key memory centre in ...

There needs to be more transparency and simplicity in the retirement village sector. This was the crux of senior law lecturer Dr Lucy Cradduck’s verbal submission to the 2007 Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs’ inquiry into older people ...

RSL Care + RDNS will now be known as Bolton Clarke. The organisation was formed following a merger between the two organisations in 2015. Chief executive Stephen Muggleton said while the previous names served the respective organisations well in their own markets, ...

Dying to Know Day is an annual event, occurring on 8 August in 2017. This yearly event, which started in 2013, is about promoting death literacy in the wider community to ensure end of life wishes are met. There are ...

The winter break is over and Victoria’s parliamentarians are set to return to passionate debate on whether they will give the state’s terminally ill a choice on when they die. Legislation on assisted dying is not expected to be introduced ...

Australian researchers are hoping to improve outcomes for people with dementia after they are discharged from hospital through a medication strategy that starts in the lead-up to discharge and continues into the home. Associate professor Ashley Kable, from the University ...

UK researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology have identified a possible new treatment for Parkinson’s. The research, published in The Lancet, shows that from a small safety trial of 62 people with Parkinson’s, the 32 participants injected with exenatide ...