We increasingly focus on what we eat and drink but much less attention is paid to the quality of the air we breathe, yet it can have considerable health implications. Now, RMIT researchers are working with schools and aged care ...

This issue of psychotropics has been front and centre during the Royal Commission, but not much time has been devoted to the reason behind its use, mental illness. Approximately half of all aged care residents exhibit symptoms consistent with depression, ...

Craig Gear recently gave a speech about the benefits of his outfit, Older Persons Advocacy Network, as well as ways in which the aged care industry can restore public confidence post-royal commission. Speaking to attendees at Australian Heathcare Week, Gear ...

“My kids will kill me for this,” Dan Levitt told the nurses in the crowd at his Australian Healthcare Week talk. “DAY-OH” he sings. The tickled crowd responds in kind. “DAYYYY-OOOHHH,” he continues and goes on to complete the attempt ...

Latin is not a dead language when it comes to dementia design. The phrase salutogenesis is a word that guides the philosophy of Dementia Training Australia (DTA) and is derived from the Latin for health – ‘salus’, and for source – ...

The Montessori method of education was developed by the Italian physician, anthropologist and pedagogue Maria Montessori in the early 20th Century. The philosophy centres around a child’s innate abilities. It is often described as a way of learning by doing and is ...

Pressure injuries are expensive for our health system, hugely distressing for patients and, most of all, preventable and predictable. That is according to UTS professor of nursing Debra Jackson. “They are so distressing,” she said. “Once a person gets a ...

Rural dementia carers find support hard to come by, phone numbers hard to find and often feel that local clinicians aren’t always helpful. The head of La Trobe’s John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, Professor Irene Blackberry, said: “Often ...