Researchers are telling people to act their subjective age and tell their GP about it. The concept of subjective age and its use in managing the wellbeing of older generations is being explored by Australian and US researchers. The team has ...

Nurse training standards have been placed under fresh scrutiny after allegations that sub-standard graduates are posing a potential risk to public safety. In a report that aired on Monday night on the ABC program Four Corners, two former senior nursing academics expressed serious ...

Snapping a bold selfie might not be something many people associate with older populations, but that’s exactly why one aged-care organisation is calling for elderly people to posts pictures of themselves online. Feros Care chief executive Jennene Buckley said the organisation ...

Australia’s healthcare system is not making best use of available funding when deciding on allocating money to different services, a researcher has argued. Further, the Queensland University of Technology’s Elizabeth Martin, who wrote the brief Rationing in Healthcare for the ...

A government reimbursement scheme for home retrofits and more assistance for people planning their housing for later in life were amongst the key recommendations from a new report on older Australians and their homes. The report, The Head, the Heart & the House, ...

“Many of the impediments to education and practice in gerontology fields are driven by policy frameworks that are exposed to political influence and competition – and we have to engage with it constructively.” This is one of the key points ...

In the latest installment of Aged Care Insite‘s series on the challenges and issues facing gerontological nurses, Dr Sue Lawrence, a lecturer in nursing at the University of Tasmania, discusses the barriers to the development of gerontic nursing as a recognised speciality. ...

In the first installment of a podcast series, professor Wendy Moyle shared her thoughts on the key challenges and issues facing gerontological nurses. Moyle, who is an RN and the director of the centre for health practice innovation at Griffith ...