Nurses caring for older people near the end of life are now able to access up to the minute clinical advice at the point of care, thanks to the development of a new smartphone app. Available free through Google Play ...

Australia’s aged-care sector must look at new approaches to keep pace with higher expectations for process and compliance. Bound by rigorous standards to safeguard the wellbeing of our older citizens, Australia’s aged-care providers are looking to technology platforms to manage and ...

Telehealth will face great difficulties if the health sector fails to think outside of its current structures. This is what Paul Frijters, professor of health economics at the University of Queensland, told Aged Care Insite in the lead up to ...

The role smart bidets may play in the future of healthcare was explored during a presentation at the recent Australian Healthcare Week 2016, held at Australian Technology Park in Sydney. Meredith Gresham, occupational therapist and a senior consultant (research and ...

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 ...

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. ...

An Australian research team is working on a non-intrusive home monitoring device that sends alerts to carers when loved ones are inactive for abnormally long periods of time. The monitoring devices are housed in boxes the shape of a small ...

There are heavy demands on organisations with limited resources; the right systems can provide the efficiency to meet the challenge. By Steve Liliopoulos Australia’s aged-care industry’s number one challenge is the country’s rapidly ageing population, the Community Services and Health ...