A new program aimed at helping people with dementia live well at home is showing promising results and could change dementia care in Australia. University of Sydney and Flinders University researchers brought Care of People with dementia in their Environments (COPE), ...

The royal commission has announced its return for 2020 with a workshop-style hearing starting in Adelaide and running over two days from 10 February. This announcement coincided with the release of two background papers, conducted for the commission by Flinders ...

Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...

“[The chef] had been here nearly 20 years and he was doing things the same way the day he left as the day he started and he couldn’t see an issue with that.” The above quote, included in a study ...

Clustered, home-like models of residential aged care lead to better quality of life for residents at a comparable cost. That’s one of the key findings of a Flinders University study that compared the approach with standard Australian care models. Its ...

A free online resource is helping improve conversations about the subject of dying and reducing social stigma. Developed by a team of palliative care experts at Flinders University, Dying2Learn was developed as part of the Australian Department of Health CareSearch ...