Australia has its first dementia-friendly airport thanks to a collaboration between staff, researchers and dementia advocates. Alzheimer’s Australia gave its tick of approval to Brisbane Airport at today’s launch of a new guide to its terminals for travellers with dementia. ...

What if a computer could tell you when you will die? The concept sounds like an elevator pitch for a science fiction novel but University of Adelaide researchers are working to bring the idea to life. Recent research, published in ...

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, ...