A city in the US will pay a $3 million settlement to a woman with dementia who was assaulted by police officers last year.  In June 2020, 73-year-old Karen Garner was violently arrested by police in Colorado after forgetting to ...

As NSW heads into the 11th week of lockdown, and with most of the nation affected on and off over the past year, it has been found that older Aussies cope better than their younger counterparts. Research at Macquarie University ...

Deaths caused by COVID-19 in Australia surpassed 1000 people on Monday after the escalating crisis in NSW recorded four deaths. Overnight NSW registered 1,290 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and as it stands, there have been 20,061 locally acquired ...

People with boring jobs have a higher risk of dementia according to researchers at University College London (UCL). An investigation of seven large cohort studies suggests that people with mentally taxing jobs have a lower risk of dementia, as proteins ...

Elderly residents at Australia’s worst single-site outbreak, St Basil’s Home for the Aged, were dehydrated and “starving” after the entire workforce was stood down last year, a court has heard. The Coroners Court of Victoria will investigate the circumstances of 50 ...

Loneliness and social isolation can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in older people, new research has found. The study of 11,498 Australian men and women over the age of 70, which was co-founded by the Heart Foundation, looked at ...

Front line workers in private aged care facilities are “nowhere near” being fully vaccinated against coronavirus, Daniel Andrews has revealed. The Commonwealth government runs the private aged care sector in Victoria, while the Andrews government controls all public nursing homes. The Victorian Premier said vaccination rates ...

NSW will introduce Covid-19 rapid antigen testing across aged care facilities in greater Sydney in a bid to identify cases before they escalate into outbreaks. The commonwealth announced on Sunday it would roll out the new testing at the Uniting Bankstown Aged Care Facility on Monday, ...

A 90-year-old aged care resident who woke to a man sexually assaulting her in a sickening attack at a Victorian nursing home managed to fight back against her attacker, police have revealed. The woman woke to find the man sexually assaulting her at the ...

Researchers at the Australian National University can now let patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) know five years in advance whether they are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia. “The ANU team’s research ...