Adults who feel they missed out by not attending university have been invited to take part in a free course in Queensland. The University of the Sunshine Coast is giving a taste of university life to Caboolture residents who did ...

Older Australians starting antidepressants or opioids face more than double the risk of a fall or hip fracture, a new paper says. For the study, published today in Australian Prescriber, the research team compared 8828 veterans with hip fractures with ...

A new project will see researchers work to help shift the dementia risk of an entire state. The largest of its kind, the study has been designed to empower people to self-manage significant modifiable dementia risk factors. Launched today by ...

Unless something changes, there is no way the World Health Organization’s (WHO) dementia targets will be met. That’s what a new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) boils down to. ADI says the primary target of the Global action plan ...

It looks increasingly likely this will be one of Australia’s worst flu seasons on record, yet despite the potentially deadly consequences, some people still refuse to be vaccinated. Last year, half of Aussies admitted they had no plans to get a flu ...

Want to improve your working memory and decision-making throughout the day? Try regular morning workouts. That’s the message to older adults from Australian experts, whose research showed morning exercise, combined with brief light-intensity walking breaks to sedentary behaviour during the day, ...

The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...