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 ...

The federal member for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie, has recently announced that she will advocate for a $1000 dental voucher for pensioners as part of her 2019 federal election campaign. This echoes calls from the Benevolent Society, which has been campaigning ...

Technology is increasingly making our lives easier: food delivered to your door at the touch of a button, movies on demand day or night, and of course, never having to read a map when driving is pretty nifty. But government ...