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 ...

Digital apps, virtual reality and other social technologies are being developed globally to aid widespread loneliness felt among older adults during COVID-19. New research has looked into the unintended consequences of digital apps to solve the deficit in social connection experienced ...

It has been over 30 years since female hysteria was unlisted as an official diagnosis, and we have learned very little about women's health since then, according to researcher, neurologist and author Professor Cassandra Szoeke. "When people say 'women's health' ...

Digital innovation has been at the forefront of discussions around aged care reform and planning for the future ageing population. But Dr George Margelis, the chairman of the Aged Care Industry and Technology Council, is warning against innovating too fast.   He ...

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 ...

Patricia Sparrow, chief executive of Aged Community Services Australia (ACSA), has announced her resignation after five years with the peak organisation. Under her leadership, Sparrow has steered ACSA through its transition into a national body, the royal commission and into ...

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 ...