Associate professor Eddy Strivens gave witness testimony to the first hearing of the Royal Commission. As the president of the Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, Strivens was called to give background on some issues facing the sector and, ...

It is often debated whether life imitates art or vice versa. But a new multi-media initiative by the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is using the art of film to inform and project life’s realities. Moving pictures is a collaboration between NARI ...

Bitcoin, last year’s craze for investors around the world, may have taken a hit this year but the technology behind it may be the real winner. Bitcoin was founded by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto when in 2008 he released the ...

A new program, developed by Dementia Support Australia (DSA) and HammondCare, is aiming to create dementia experts among the provider’s workforce. As it stands, dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, contributing to 5.4 per cent of ...

If nurse and independent candidate for the Victorian federal seat of Indi, Helen Haines, makes it to Canberra this year, we can be sure she won’t fall foul of last year’s most popular piece of the constitution: section 44. As ...

“To improve the quality of life of older Australians through good food and nutrition.” This is the vision of The Lantern Project, an aged care focused collaboration concentrated on the dining experience, legal and food quality issues as well as ...

“I’m not afraid to die, ‘cause I reckon hell is here on Earth,” says one forgotten Australian, her large dark eyes shining and wet as she remembers her time in ‘care’. From 1947 until 1972, up to 10,000 children were ...

Many people working in aged care see resident-to-resident aggression (RAA) happen daily but don’t have access to much evidence surrounding its prevention, a new study has said. Led by Dr Briony Jain from Monash University, Victorian researchers interviewed 15 people working ...