During the first year of COVID-19, researchers installed smart home technologies into the households of older people to observe how digital devices impacted their lives. Smart Homes for Seniors, directed by Professor Sarah Pink, captured this journey through the eyes ...

A nutritious diet could be more effective than drugs in preventing stroke, diabetes and heart disease, a new University of Sydney study has found. The research, published in Cell Metabolism, tested different combinations of three anti-ageing drugs with various mixtures ...

A long black or three a day could be a helpful way to stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to a new long-term study. Researchers from Edith Cowan University investigated whether coffee intake affected the cognitive decline of more than 200 ...

The government has finally announced the makeup of the new National Aged Care Advisory Council, with 17 "prominent Australians" tasked with providing expert advice and guidance on aged care. The Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, announced the ...

A new study has found evidence that an Iron deficiency in the brain could be an important factor in developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the University of Adelaide were studying the mutations in a small number of genes associated with ...

Leading advocates are in talks with the federal government about implementing the first recommendation of the royal commission, a new Aged Care Act. A coalition of 25 peak bodies, including the Older Person’s Advocacy Network (OPAN), has said that they ...

A Melbourne woman believes her mother’s death from the coronavirus outbreak at St. Basil’s aged care facility was a form of “manslaughter”, a court has been told. Maxine Tsihlakis told a coronial inquest into the deaths of 50 residents at the facility that ...

Seventy per cent of Australians under 50 have heart health older than their metabolic age, according to the Heart Foundation. The figures come from research carried out by the foundation with over 2 million Australians using its Heart Age Calculator ...

A raft of new legislative changes have been made to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) amid an ongoing senate inquiry into the future of the controversial program. Griffith University researchers Professor Michele Foster and Associate Professor Kylie Burns are ...

Australia has ratified one of the largest trade agreements in history despite concerns that it may deter reform to the aged care system. Federal parliament passed the enabling legislation for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), without making aged care ...