Issues affecting older people with backgrounds that reflect cultural and linguistical diversity (CALD) must be embraced in all research and service delivery, and translating research into policy and practice is an important component of doing so. This was a key message raised during ...

Age-service providers have reached out to school students from the Gold Coast and the Illawarra to drum up interest in aged care. IRT College has partnered with the NSW Department of Industry and Apprenticeship Support Australia to pilot a school-based ...

A delegation of Leading Age Services Australia’s (LASA) rural members recently attended meetings with Senator Fiona Nash and other MPs to discuss what the government can do to ensure viability for rural and remote aged services. The meetings were held ...

Digital technology will continue to transform aged care into the future, from the way workers are trained to the types of career paths they might follow, a new report has found. The CSIRO report Tomorrow’s Digitally Enabled Workforce said the aged-care ...

Professor Paul Glasziou from Bond University heads up a team of Australian researchers – Professors Rachelle Buchbinder from Monash, and Chris Maher and Kirsten McCaffery from the University of Sydney – that have just received a $9,578,895 grant to investigate unnecessary testing and ...

The upcoming federal parliamentary inquiry into the aged-care workforce should give special attention to the needs of Indigenous people, an academic has said. In the lead up to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s aged-care workforce, Dr Maree Bernoth, a senior ...

In scenes reminiscent of a blockbuster movie set or undercover exposé, silicon masks and body suits that resemble seniors are being incorporated into university campuses to prepare students to care for older patients. Southern Cross University has been using simulation ...

The number of subscribers to a YouTube channel dedicated to over 55s has risen, and the production team said seniors are flocking to the video-sharing site. The IRT Foundation launched The Good Life last year and it recently hit 500 subscribers. ...