This is a difficult time for aged care in Australia in so many ways. We know this from personal experience working in aged care or from using it or visiting loved ones dependent on it. We know it also from ...

Australia's care economy will be in need of a thousand staff within the next five years, a figure that is expected to double by 2050, a new report found. National skills commissioner Adam Boyton drew up the 'Care Workforce Labour ...

The industry peak body has called on the government to restructure My Aged Care as it considers a blanket cap on home care fees. During the election, Labor made a commitment to cap home care fees after the Royal Commission's ...

Healthcare minister Mark Butler announced last week that the government will fork out an additional $1.4 billion over the upcoming three months to prevent Covid outbreaks in hospitals and aged care homes.  The Covid package that was due to expire ...

Eating 500 grams of strawberries, equal to 2.5 cups, every day might be one way to stave off age-related diseases, according to an exciting field called cellular senescence. The science studies 'senescent' cells that have have stopped dividing and linger ...

Cameron Holland, chief of Ryman Healthcare Australia If Australia wants to prepare for a rapidly ageing population and fix the unsustainability of the sector, we need to look at alternative approaches, said Ryman Healthcare Australia's recent discussion paper. "Australia's aged ...

Living past your 110th birthday may sound like a dream for some and a nightmare for others. For Australia’s oldest man, Frank Mawer, it was a long ride full of excitement and extraordinary adventures. He was born on August 15 ...

Out of every thousand people aged over 65, it's estimated that 83 Australians are living with dementia. To boost support and clear the persisting misconceptions around the disease, the annual Dementia Action Week kicks off today with a campaign called: ...

As the second major aged care reform bill passed the lower house on Thursday last week, law experts continue to advocate removing amendment nine from the first piece of legislation. Of the 14 implementations included in the Royal Commission Response ...

What does it mean to age as a woman? Radio broadcaster and writer Jacinta Parsons's latest book, A question of age, dives into controversial topics such as the image of women in society and how their body and mind changes ...