A new pilot study coming out of the UK has found that one extra meal a day can cut the deaths of those who suffer hip fractures in half. The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s hip fracture quality improvement programme noted ...

How many conversations do you have in a day? A wearable device might soon be able to tell you. RMIT researchers have partnered with Bolton Clarke to develop the CaT Pin. It tracks the wearer’s conversation and sends alerts to ...

The state government is promising seniors living in rural and regional NSW a $250 travel card to use on fuel, taxis and some trains and buses. But the offer has been slammed as “electoral bribery” by one MP, who has ...

Bitcoin, last year’s craze for investors around the world, may have taken a hit this year but the technology behind it may be the real winner. Bitcoin was founded by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto when in 2008 he released the ...

The new national framework for aged care advocacy was published online this week. Signed off late last year, it will ensure that aged care recipients receive the “best possible assistance” from the advocates acting on their behalf, Minister for Senior Australians ...

Some people would rather die than go into residential aged care facilities. This is according to UnitingCare Australia’s Claerwen Little, who told the commission about the findings from Uniting’s research into community perceptions of aged care. They found, among other ...

Day five of the aged care royal commission saw a set of tense exchanges between counsel assisting Dr Timothy McEvoy and Leading Age Services Australia chief executive Sean Rooney. Rooney was taken to task by McEvoy over a number of ...

The year after the Government stalled aged care funding there was a marked increase in findings of “substandard care that would impact on the health and wellbeing of a care recipient”. During the evidence of the secretary of the department ...