Eating a Mediterranean diet could help older people stave off frailty and keep sharp, researchers have found. A diet rich in fruit and veg, olive oil and fish boosts bacteria in the gut linked to healthy ageing and reduces bacteria ...

Eighty-five-year-old Mavis Ede told carers at Care UK’s Highmarket House in Banbury that her greatest wish was to see penguins. But she got the shock of her life when the care team turned up with two friendly penguins at her ...

There’s a lot of rhetoric in the aged care sector about how best to reform it, admits Danielle Ballantine, but she reckons her Sydney-based organisation is heading in the right direction thanks to an approach focused on simplifying the user ...

Superannuation reform is again at the forefront of political debate this week, with calls to raise contributions and do away with them all together ringing out simultaneously. The compulsory superannuation guarantee is set to rise from 9.5 per cent in ...

Australia’s retirement village operators are being encouraged to sign up to the new Retirement Living Code of Conduct, which aims to safeguard the interests of current and future retirement residents. Around 1000 retirement villages have already preregistered to participate in ...

Last night I decided to set my alarm an hour early, and in a desperate attempt to drag myself out of bed I set my alarm to the loudest most annoying church bell sound I could find. Instead of rousing ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding the way brain blood flow affects certain serious illnesses such as high blood pressure, migraines and even dementia. The academics from the University of Auckland, University College London, and Bristol University, have discovered ...

A Florida man has been charged with the murder of a resident at one of the state’s nursing homes.   Police were sent to the Tiffany Hall Nursing & Rehab Center on January 5 for reports of a 95-year-old resident ...