Salutogenic design is a buzz phrase in the aged care space, but do we really know what it is? More commonly known as dementia-friendly design, it is a catch-all term easily described as design that makes life better for those with dementia. The ...

A new project will see researchers work to help shift the dementia risk of an entire state. The largest of its kind, the study has been designed to empower people to self-manage significant modifiable dementia risk factors. Launched today by ...

In high-income countries like Australia, nursing and aged care workforces are increasingly multicultural. In Australia it is estimated that 32 per cent of RACF workers were born overseas. In similar nations, such as the UK, figures are as high as 40 ...

Unless something changes, there is no way the World Health Organization’s (WHO) dementia targets will be met. That’s what a new report from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) boils down to. ADI says the primary target of the Global action plan ...

“Who am I?” Dr John Roth posed rhetorically as he spoke to the National Dementia Conference. John is a father, grandfather, husband and friend, and was a surgeon for 40 years before his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2015. He loved his ...

Bidyadanga is a small town in the Kimberley region of WA. Approximately 1590km north of Perth and 180km south of Broome. It is the definition of a remote Aussie town. It’s home to around 800 people with five different language groups, and ...

Labor has promised that, if elected, it will address inadequate staffing in aged care and ensure there is a registered nurse onsite at all residential aged care facilities 24 hours a day. Via a statement released yesterday, opposition leader Bill Shorten ...

A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...