Digital innovation has been at the forefront of discussions around aged care reform and planning for the future ageing population. But Dr George Margelis, the chairman of the Aged Care Industry and Technology Council, is warning against innovating too fast.   He ...

Patricia Sparrow, chief executive of Aged Community Services Australia (ACSA), has announced her resignation after five years with the peak organisation. Under her leadership, Sparrow has steered ACSA through its transition into a national body, the royal commission and into ...

St Vincent’s Care Services (SVCS) recently struck a deal to buy three residential aged care facilities previously owned by PresCare. The acquisition – which serves 390 residential aged care beds, with 76 beds  in dedicated special care units for residents diagnosed ...

As care robots gain momentum in the global aged care industry, experts are raising ethical concerns over the potential impact of replacing human companionship with technology. “Once you begin to have robots that do things that humans do increasingly well, ...

Old age is not the end. At a time when meaningful ageing is a buzz term in aged care, researchers say that remaining engaged with meaningful activities as we get older can help us achieve just that. International experts led ...

Innovation and co-design in aged care delivery is a key solution to addressing the needs of the global ageing population, according to researchers. Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing, published earlier this year, reports on a series of workshops involving university ...

After pooling dozens of cases involving violent crime against older people, researchers discovered that the most likely victims of homicide were women and they were most likely to be killed in their home. The first comprehensive study into cases of ...

Aged care provider Whiddon will implement rapid COVID-19 testing at their largest aged care campus, Whiddon Easton Park in Glenfield, NSW. They'll use Rapid antigen tests: on-the-spot screening tests that detect antigens, or proteins, found on the surface of the ...

AgedCareInsite · The Ageing Equation Podcast || Ep 2 The Ageing Equation podcast brings you insights into the aged care industry. Journalist Nance Haxton and residential aged care expert and consultant Safdar Ali break down the latest market analysis and ...

Creative writing can deepen insights into how people living in aged care homes experience loneliness, according to a new study.  Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves, a senior lecturer of sociology at Monash University, spent six months interviewing residents living in residential aged ...