The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...

Bidyadanga is a small town in the Kimberley region of WA. Approximately 1590km north of Perth and 180km south of Broome. It is the definition of a remote Aussie town. It’s home to around 800 people with five different language groups, and ...

“Neither party has taken it particularly seriously,” John Pollaers tells the crowd. Speaking prior to the election at the Informa National Dementia Conference, Pollaers laments the state of politics and, more broadly, community engagement in the aged care sector. It’s ...

“We’re not funded for how happy a resident is.” That’s one of the ways in which the current aged care system fails to incentivise good practice, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety heard. Lucy O’Flaherty, who heads ...

Regulation alone will not stop the overuse of antipsychotic drugs to manage the behaviour of people with dementia in aged care facilities, Australia’s chief medical officer says. Professor Brendan Murphy said cultural change and the education of doctors is needed. ...

This week the Sydney hearing of the Aged Care Royal Commission started with testimony detailing the death of an aged care resident at a Bupa facility in late 2017. “We walked into the building and we walked into the corridor, ...

“Hello, Pat. It’s Judy.” That’s how Patricia Watson’s sister greeted her when the two unexpectedly crossed paths at the shops. Watson lives with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) which, as Dr Jo Lane from Australian National University’s Research School of Population ...