The nation’s top legal and ageing experts are calling on the commonwealth to enact nationally consistent laws to prevent elder financial abuse. President of the Law Council of Australia Dr Jacoba Bransch QC, convened a national roundtable in July to ...
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Sydney lockdown: Covid-19 rapid antigen testing rolled out in aged care
NSW will introduce Covid-19 rapid antigen testing across aged care facilities in greater Sydney in a bid to identify cases before they escalate into outbreaks. The commonwealth announced on Sunday it would roll out the new testing at the Uniting Bankstown Aged Care Facility on Monday, ...
More »90-year-old aged care resident ‘fought back’ against attacker in sickening sexual assault
A 90-year-old aged care resident who woke to a man sexually assaulting her in a sickening attack at a Victorian nursing home managed to fight back against her attacker, police have revealed. The woman woke to find the man sexually assaulting her at the ...
More »Inside Australia’s first homeless shelter for the elderly
When Bryan Lipmann founded Wintringham, he wanted it to be a place where he could envisage himself growing old. A place where if he wanted to, he could enjoy a drink, have a smoke, visit the local pub or leave ...
More »What do older Australians think about young people?
The majority of older people deeply care about the future and wellbeing of younger generations, according to a recent report. Over 3,000 older Australians shared their thoughts on the anonymous survey published by National Seniors Australia. When asked to identify ...
More »‘Pre-Covid life has died’: Vaccination plea goes viral
A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...
More »Buying time: experts could diagnose Alzheimer’s five years earlier
Researchers at the Australian National University can now let patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) know five years in advance whether they are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease – the most common form of dementia. “The ANU team’s research ...
More »Care robots: safe or unethical?
As care robots gain momentum in the global aged care industry, experts are raising ethical concerns over the potential impact of replacing human companionship with technology. “Once you begin to have robots that do things that humans do increasingly well, ...
More »Creating ‘safe spaces’ for trauma: One nurse’s journey
For Lynda Walton, a mental health advocate and aged care worker for over 30 years, the most valuable part of her job has been the opportunity to help people. “I was one of those people that wanted to save the ...
More »Age should be no barrier in the workplace: opinion
In the third decade of the 21st Century, it is not only disappointing but genuinely puzzling that ageism still exists in the workplace today. We know it from our lived experience but a joint research project between the Australian HR ...
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