Women who suffer pre-eclampsia during pregnancy have a higher risk of dementia in later life, a new study suggests. Researchers say the pregnancy condition is linked to dementia, particularly vascular dementia. Pre-eclampsia is characterised by new onset of high blood ...

Few older adults who self-harm in the UK are being referred for a specialist mental health assessment following a GP visit, a new study has found. Published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, the large observational study found that around 90 ...

The existing regulatory oversight of the aged-care sector has badly failed Australians and a new body alone won’t fix the issue. That’s what Labor’s message to government boiled down to regarding the establishment of a new watchdog for the sector. ...

Establishing an independent body to hear allegations of abuse or neglect in the aged care sector is a “change of stationery” rather than reform, independent MP Rebekha Sharkie says. Sharkie said the government is shifting its responsibilities, such as providing ...

As October 1 marked the International Day of the Older Person, the NSW Division of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild is heralding older people by recognising the Feldenkrais method – a practice believed to help people with mobility and mental health ...

Changing attitudes to ageing has to happen; that’s a given. But, how it happens and when is the challenge being taken up by the social campaign, EveryAGE Counts. The anti-ageism campaign, which is the brainchild of the Benevolent Society, but driven ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care needs to go beyond the urgent problems of residential aged care to look at the full formal system of care and support. We need to ensure we can increase staffing levels in residential care and ensure ...

Australia’s grandmothers are typically happy to take on child-minding duties but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from becoming overburdened, the authors of a new report have reminded families. Just under two-thirds (60 per cent) of women in their mid-sixties and ...