New assistive technologies to help predict and prevent falls among residents will be trialled in one Victorian aged care home. Tech company, HomeGuardian has partnered with Villa Maria Catholic Homes (VMCH) and Deakin University to test an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Do you have difficulty getting out of a chair, opening a jar or crossing the road? If yes, you may be showing signs of sarcopenia, which causes the accelerated loss or failure of skeletal muscle mass and function. An estimated ...

Researchers have found that eating only a handful of nuts each day keeps the brains of older people healthy. The study found considerable cognitive benefits for people over 60 who ate a half-to-one serving of nuts each day. "Eating a ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has driven millions of people inside, many jobs in healthcare have not had that luxury. And as health professionals kept calm and carried on, so too did nursing schools across the nation as graduating the current ...

Deakin University has announced a new Institute for Health Transformation with the aim to “guide a transformation of the way Australian health and care is promoted, designed and delivered”. The institute will bring together more than 200 academics and researchers ...