How does living with a pooch influence a person’s health? That’s the question at the centre of a new University of Sydney study. Study lead associate professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, from the Charles Perkins Centre and Sydney School of Public Health, ...

Aged and palliative care bodies have united to release a set of principles to help services in their approach to death and dying. The principles were developed by Palliative Care Australia (PCA), COTA Australia, Alzheimer’s Australia, Aged & Community Services ...

Not enough people are protecting themselves from a potentially fatal lung disease, respiratory disease experts have said. The call coincides with the release of Lung Foundation Australia research that found three quarters of Australian adults couldn’t be motivated to protect ...

An aged care provider has launched a campaign to encourage the public to give their thanks to nurses for all they do, following research that revealed fewer than one-in-three people can name a nurse who has cared for them or ...

Following its release last night, health and aged care peak bodies and industry experts have sorted through the Turnbull Government’s 2017-18 Federal Budget with a fine-tooth comb. Here, Aged Care Insite shares what they believe are the biggest wins for ...

Widespread screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) – an irregular heart rhythm that can cause blood clots to form in the heart and travel to the brain – in people aged 65-years-and-over could reduce the risk of strokes and premature deaths, ...

Aged care health students have much to gain by hearing from older adults in the classroom, Australian researchers have said. Associate professor Maree Bernoth, from Charles Sturt University (CSU), has involved people living in residential aged care in the learning ...

Employers have an important role to play in the prevention and response to family violence, an Australian aged care provider has said. Benetas was announced as one of 27 employers to be accredited as a White Ribbon Workplace, bringing the ...