What would be your last meal? For Josino, all he wanted was lobster, but that wasn’t to be. “You know what really annoys me, if I was on death row, I could choose my last meal. Just because I’m sick, ...

Australian academics are calling for a ‘Silver Alert’ system to help locate people with dementia who are reported lost. Silver Alert systems, which are similar to the Amber variety used for missing children, operate in 18 US states. When a ...

Community nurses have been referring clients to a pharmacist to improve medication safety under an Australian pilot. The Visiting Pharmacist study saw Bolton Clarke employ two part‐time clinical pharmacists to review and reconcile clients’ medications. Pharmacists also educated clients and ...

For some, listening to the radio is a way to kill time while driving or catch up on the day’s news, but for older adults the desire to tune in might have deeper implications. In partnership with the Community Broadcasting ...

The aged care industry needs new blood. An estimated 60 per cent of the existing workforce will reach retirement age over the next 15 years and recent research from HESTA has revealed the sector is facing a potential shortfall of ...

Australia has its fair share of floods, bushfires and cyclones, and for carers of people with dementia there is an extra layer of anxiety and potential danger. With this in mind, QUT has partnered with the Red Cross to help ...

A health monitoring station for large corporations. A Gumtree for health services. And a platform for GPs to connect retirees to local activities. These are some of the early ideas hashed out in the lead up to the University of ...

Fewer nursing home residents are needing to return to hospital after discharge under a program that involves regular specialist follow up. The intervention, called Regular Early Assessment Post-Discharge (REAP), was developed by a team from St George Hospital, Calvary Health ...