With the advent of consumer-directed care, providers are going to have to offer information to potential aged-care recipients in an attractive way and they need to ensure they’re not misleading their audience. This was one key point Tim Longwill, from ...

Targeting what drives the prescribing of sedatives is key to changing those practices in Australian aged-care homes, attendees of Leading Age Services Australia’s national congress heard. Dr Juanita Westbury, from the University of Tasmania, presented the key findings from the RedUSe ...

The City of Helsinki, Finland, is helping young people in need find secure housing while reducing social isolation among seniors. Attendees of the LASA National Congress 2016 learned about the intergenerational living project, ‘A Home that fits’. The program involves people ...

Serious games are a big part of health education’s future, said a nursing academic who has helped develop a game that explores safety risks and hazards in care environments. Safe Environments was developed by University of the Sunshine Coast academics ...

Findings that just under a third of nurses, including those working in aged care, reported they were considering leaving the profession have sparked concern over retention of skilled workers. A survey revealed a quarter of nurses and midwives felt they ...

Unplanned care, such as toileting and answering bells, and rehabilitative care, are two areas in which residential aged-care workers said they miss duties across their shifts, new research has found. The team behind the research, led by Dr Julie Henderson from Flinders ...

Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Ken Wyatt has announced the organisations that will deliver a national dementia behaviour management service and a streamlined training program. Wyatt said the new arrangements will replace the current services, delivered by multiple ...

Watching a clip of someone with advanced dementia tap along to one of their favourite songs and sing a few words was just one way attendees of a recent forum witnessed the power of music in care. BaptistCare’s dementia forum, ...