Maggots were found in the mouth of a respite patient at an aged care facility in Broome and the incident was reported anonymously to the aged care complaints commissioner. The Royal Commission’s Broome hearing was told that during the course of ...

Dementia is three times more likely among Aboriginal Australians than that of Australia’s non-Indigenous population, a new study finds. Professor Tony Broe, senior principal research fellow at NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia), conducted the Koori Growing Old Well Study; a census ...