More than 30,000 Victorians will take part in a pilot of a new program that aims to virtually connect families and support older people to maintain their normal routines as they age. Pilot participants will receive a custom-developed tablet connected ...

The cost of older Australians’ brittle bones is rising. A new burden of disease report has revealed the total costs of osteoporosis and osteopenia in people over 50 years of age will be $3.1 billion in 2017. The Osteoporosis Australia ...

Australian women are willing to tell others about their bladder leakage but the majority simply laugh off the health issue, a new survey has found. The Continence Foundation of Australia survey of 1000 women aged 30-years-and-older found that while women ...

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 ...