Can mature men solve the aged care skills crisis? Health and aged care will be one of the biggest drivers of job creation in Australia this century – or so we are told. Economists, ministers and HR experts have all ...

The incoming consumer-directed care model will undoubtedly face difficulties; solving those problems requires a monitoring system focused on producing better outcomes. Suddenly, it’s nearly Christmas – already! Hope you have a good break planned over summer. It seems like many ...

Epicor has released a web-based administrative software specifically for residential aged-care facilities called Senior Living Solution. This SLS is aimed at facilities with up to 300 beds on three sites with 50 or fewer users. It has been designed for the ...

Identifying digital advances that can reduce social isolation will improve lives and cut healthcare costs. A number of technology-based interventions have been offered to older adults in a bid to reduce social isolation, but do they work? This is what ...

Dysphagia care gives all staff plenty to think about; only through highly co-ordinated efforts can residents be well served. What is dysphagia? It’s a term that means ‘swallowing problem’. It has numerous causes, including stroke, head and neck cancer, dementia and ...

The public must have confidence in nurses’ ability and willingness to practise proper medication management. Those who violate that trust rarely get off lightly. Nurses are entrusted with significant responsibility in relation to the handling, dispensing and giving of medications. ...

New devices and software are responsible for many advances in medicine but they cannot be allowed to make us forget the value of human contact. Nurses have seen the value of touch and must keep it in mind as healthcare technology ...

Reforms and innovation can bring positive change to a sector, but recent digital innovations in delivery of social care have suffered from poor implementation. Web-based platforms and digital reform are playing a key role in the personalisation of social care ...