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 ...

Nursing and midwives seeking advice about their health and wellbeing now have access to a national dedicated telephone and online service. Launched today, Nurse & Midwife Support (NM Support) provides nurses and midwives with 24/7 access to an experienced team ...

It’s still seen as a taboo topic, even among some health professionals, but recent research has revealed there is a high prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) among female nurses and midwives and it may affect their intention to leave their ...

Australian researchers have put claims made by the companies behind brain training programs to the test and have found some may not be backed up by trials into their effectiveness. Researchers from Edith Cowan University examined the scientific claims made ...

People with Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and chronic airways disease; those from migrant groups; and Indigenous people will all have their say on death and dying as part of a new Australian research project. Led by University of Adelaide researcher Dr ...

More than half a million dollars will be spent advancing a program that sees dental hygienists and oral health therapists placed in Australian aged care facilities. Researchers from the University of Newcastle, led by Dr Janet Wallace, were successful in ...