Financial insecurity and lack of awareness of existing services are among the barriers vulnerable people face when it comes to accessing healthcare in Australia. That’s a key message from Queensland University of Technology research that aimed to understand the pressures felt by ...

Academics are calling for a more comprehensive approach to older adult suicide prevention, following findings that there are a range of age-related risk factors associated with its prevalence. Using the Queensland Suicide Register, researchers from Griffith University’s Australian Institute for ...

A study has tied gains in muscle strength to improvement in cognitive function in adults with mild cognitive impairment. The research was published in the Journal of American Geriatrics. It forms part of a wider project, titled Study of Mental ...

Thousands of people with diabetic foot disease could be spared amputations and lengthy hospitalisations if government invests in proven treatments, new research suggests. The study also found the Australian health system could save $2.7 billion over five years if people ...

A Walkathon run by an Australian aged-care provider has raised more than $80,000 to help victims of modern day slavery and spread awareness about the issue. The Walkathon events were held over six weeks at The Salvation Army Aged Care ...

Non-dispensing pharmacists will be integrated into medical centres in the greater Brisbane area to help patients stay out of hospital after discharge. The intervention is part of a study that aims to improve the transfer of information between hospitals and ...

How much green is needed amongst the grey of cities to keep people healthy and out of hospital? This is one of the key overarching questions a $3.2 million research project will explore. The five-year research project, titled ‘Greener Cities ...

Researchers are planning to develop a homegrown framework for registered nurses working with older people and their families. Associate professor Victoria Traynor, from the University of Wollongong’s School of Nursing, said the available nursing competencies for the aged-care sector were ...