Louise DeWolf is the Butterfly Model coordinator at Barunga Village, a retirement home and residential aged care provider in Port Broughton, a township 170 kilometres northwest of Adelaide, in South Australia. Barunga Village has recently completed a 12-month pilot program ...

Dr Wilfred Koon is the founder and principal dentist at The Point Dental, in Point Cook, Melbourne. He is seeking to revolutionise the masticating lives of older Australians with a different type of dental implants. It’s called All-on-4 and Koon ...

Brisbane North PHN has recently rolled out two initiatives – Yellow Envelope and Geriatric Outreach Assessment Service – to help or minimise the transition of aged care residents from facilities to hospitals, which have long been desiderata of the industry. “The ...

Peninsula Villages is a residential aged care community in Brisbane Water, on New South Wales’ Central Coast, an hour north of Sydney. CEO Shane Neaves and his team at Peninsula Villages are currently working with Brisbane Water Secondary College to ...

Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s Disease ...

Dr Patricia Weerakoon is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Medical School, and is an expert in sex education, research and therapy. To mark Valentine’s Day on Tuesday 14 February 2017, Aged Care Insite spoke with Weerakoon about ...

February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. To mark the occasion, there will be a function at Parliament House on Wednesday 8 February 2017 attended by government figures, and on Wednesday 22 February 2017, Australians around the country will host an ...

The Macular Disease Foundation of Australia (MDFA) today released a new report into the longterm funding requirements for aids and technologies to assist the 100,000 older Australians with vision loss or blindness. The report, entitled Low Vision, Quality of Life and ...