A friendship shared by two Melbourne-based artists has led to the creation of a series of portraits that explores the human condition and realities of ageing. For the past 30 years painter and sculptor Peter Wegner has met with fellow artist Graeme Doyle to ...

A recent report on the aged care workforce has shone a mostly positive light on the future of the industry but more work needs to be done to ensure its viability, industry peak bodies have said. The National Institute of ...

Despite media and political noise surrounding vaccine-hesitant parents, non-immunised children form a very small proportion of under-vaccinated Australians, and a shift of perspective is urgently required. This is the call from Dr Rob Menzies, senior Lecturer at the University of ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, professor and ...

Small changes might be all providers need to make to improve job quality and the care provided in their services. This is the basis of a new toolkit that has been designed to assist aged care providers build sustainable, high-quality ...

Melburnians might have seen a group of aged-care residents skittering around the city’s suburbs and performing seemingly random tasks last month. Residents from Freedom Aged Care’s Hawthorn, Glen Waverley, Burwood, Cheltenham and Sandringham sites stopped strangers to ask for a ...

Delirium affects a quarter of older people in hospital and has the same death rate as a heart attack yet it is often missed or untreated by health professionals in hospitals, residential aged care facilities and the community. This concern ...