It has been suggested that the western world has lost its ‘death literacy’ as we increasingly look to outsource end of life care to businesses. A new public health approach to palliative care has been put forward as a compassionate alternative ...

Community nurses have been referring clients to a pharmacist to improve medication safety under an Australian pilot. The Visiting Pharmacist study saw Bolton Clarke employ two part‐time clinical pharmacists to review and reconcile clients’ medications. Pharmacists also educated clients and ...

Training up community care workers in falls prevention may help curb the declining number of clients taking part in preventive exercise programs, new research suggests. Study lead Dr Elissa Burton, from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science at Curtin ...

What can we learn from overseas experience with care markets? For those interested in developing Australian aged care into what the Aged Care Roadmap has termed “a consumer-driven market-based system”, it is time to look to the US. This market has ...

As nursing home staff in Victoria campaign for higher staffing levels and better wages, the Federal Office of Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has said it will stand in solidarity with its colleagues. Federal Secretary Annie Butler said it ...

The ability to talk into a device and have it translate and relay the message to another person could be a game changer for people with dementia from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, improving care and reducing the need ...

A new survey allows clients and workers to give their opinions on quality with ease, offering researchers and providers an unobtrusive new tool for improving services. The researchers behind a survey tool that measures quality of life in community care ...

The researchers behind a survey tool that measures quality of life in community care have held a public seminar to detail its potential to contribute to understanding changes in the delivery of age services. The team, comprising researchers from Macquarie University ...