The South Australia Government have announced an Australia first trial of CCTV installation across at least five aged care facilities in the state over a twelve-month period. The government will invest $500,000 into the trial. It will be run by ...

Much has been said about person-centred care for people with dementia, but it’s time for change to make sure the good intentions of person-centred care don’t get lost in busy day-to-day routines. The crucial component needed to make this approach ...

Medicines prescribed to reduce the symptoms of prostate disease have been linked to an increased likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes. A new study looked at health records from around 55,000 UK men who had been prescribed 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors over ...

The inaugural Health Minister’s award for nursing trailblazers has been awarded to a Canberra nurse for her work in improving the delivery of palliative care to Australians living in residential aged care. Nikki Johnston, a palliative care nurse practitioner based ...

“You don’t know.” Jac Mathieson, the chief nursing officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, found herself saying this a lot when talking about the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, soon to be law in Victoria. In this instance she was asked, ...

Nurses are coming together to let world leaders know that universal health coverage needs nurses working their full scope. The message is key to the Nursing Now campaign, spearheaded in Australia by the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) and Australian ...

Two years after the introduction of personalised funding in the home care sector, the evidence of its impact of increasing choice, control and quality through competitive markets is mixed. Research commissioned by the Department of Health to evaluate the experiences ...

Electrical brain stimulation using a non-invasive cap can help boost older people’s mental scores to those of people 20 to 30 years younger, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on Monday, found age-related decline ...