An app that assesses pain among people with dementia stacks up against existing pain scales, new research has found. The study, recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, tested the validity and reliability of the electronic pain ...

More than 30,000 Victorians will take part in a pilot of a new program that aims to virtually connect families and support older people to maintain their normal routines as they age. Pilot participants will receive a custom-developed tablet connected ...

Digital expertise and industry knowledge is a powerful combination when selecting a technology vendor for an aged care provider. We have four key qualities we seek in a technology vendor. First, we look for runs on the board in aged ...

What if a computer could tell you when you will die? The concept sounds like an elevator pitch for a science fiction novel but University of Adelaide researchers are working to bring the idea to life. Recent research, published in ...

Brain stimulation during exercise might look like something straight out of science fiction but the combination could one day be used to help older Australians and people who have had a stroke, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of ...

Australian and Japanese researchers will come together to examine the ways in which robotic technology and artificial intelligence (AI) can deliver greater efficiencies in care and the role societal attitudes play in their adoption, as part of a new research ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, professor and ...