This year would have been an eventful one for the aged care sector even without COVID-19. With it, 2020 was a watershed moment. COVID-19 was, as the Aged Care Royal Commission put it, the greatest challenge the aged care sector ...

With its budget announcement of $1.6 billion for 23,000 additional home care packages to help care for older Australians in their own homes, the government has taken a significant step in the right direction to support the thousands of elderly ...

A research team from Monash University has designed portable units which can transform acute and sub-acute hospital rooms into temporary palliative care rooms. The Pal-care unit is the brainchild of the husband and wife team of Dr Thinn Thinn Khine and ...

The first of the nation’s baby boomers are turning 75 this year and, as they grow older, the one-size fits all approach will no longer work in the aged care industry. If they don’t already, residents will expect greater flexibility ...

What a difference a few months can make. Experts here in Australia and around the world have been putting up a convincing use case for telehealth for close on three decades now. They know it can improve access to healthcare ...

Valuable data routinely collected in residential aged care is being lost because providers are gathering and recording it in different ways. That’s the issue a team of Australian researchers are hoping to overcome with the Aged Care Data Compare project. ...

Getting exercise and staying mentally engaged is often challenging as we age, and aged care homes are always coming up with new and interesting ways of keeping their communities engaged and healthy. Companies around Australia are also working to that ...

New Australian research has found that the more social interactions aged care recipients have, the better their cognitive function. And researchers argue that the government should help keep aged care residents socially engaged using technology. Academics from Macquarie University, along ...