At one point in time you can imagine everyone had a garden that they relied on for food. You might be old enough to remember that, or you might do that still, but having a garden is becoming all too ...

George Aki sat in the Sydney hearing of the royal commission to give testimony, and unlike most given that day, he was fairly positive. Aki was happy with the care his father had received towards the end of his life. However, ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is calling for a national program that would see pharmacists embedded in aged care facilities. A report by PSA shows that 98 per cent of aged care residents have at least one medicine-related incident and ...

‘Trust. Noun. The reliance on the integrity, justice, etc of a person, or on some quality or attribute of a thing; confidence.’ That is the first definition the Macquarie Dictionary has for the word trust. There are another 22 definitions or ...

Home care package (HCP) numbers have been released by the government this year that show 129,000 are still waiting for help, up 1290 from the last report. However, the report shows that placements are trending in the right direction. As ...

Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, and to better understand the disease research is vital. Finding willing people for trials and research can be difficult for academics and studies show that of terminated dementia clinical trials, ...

Salutogenic design is a buzz phrase in the aged care space, but do we really know what it is? More commonly known as dementia-friendly design, it is a catch-all term easily described as design that makes life better for those with dementia. The ...

Residential aged care facilities can be doing more to treat osteoporosis and can do better to prevent falls and osteoporosis-related fractures. These are the conclusions from a new study looking at anti-osteoporosis medication use in aged care. The study also ...