Australia's first guidelines on physical exercise to reduce cognitive decline and improve mental health have been launched. Regular physical exercise has been linked to reducing anxiety and depression and lowering the risk of dementia-onset by up to 30 per cent. Yet, Melbourne University's director ...

A global review has highlighted the urgent need for gender-neutral policies to protect the mental health of unpaid female carers. Researchers from the University of Melbourne looked at nearly 140,000 records worldwide and found that unpaid caregiving negatively affected mental ...

71-year-old Gwynne from Adelaide has been living with knee osteoarthritis for four years. At first, the pain in her knees gradually started to worsen, but soon she was struggling to walk or get up from her chair. Eventually, she had ...

Eating 500 grams of strawberries, equal to 2.5 cups, every day might be one way to stave off age-related diseases, according to an exciting field called cellular senescence. The science studies 'senescent' cells that have have stopped dividing and linger ...

Researchers have mapped out pathways for two of the world's leading causes of blindness that they hope will assist in developing a cure in the future. The new stem cell models expand on science's understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, such as ...

As Covid outbreaks continue to impact aged care homes across the country, using robots to help keep isolated residents company could be an attractive solution. Researchers from the University of Melbourne spoke with 16 older people living in the community ...

Digital apps, virtual reality and other social technologies are being developed globally to aid widespread loneliness felt among older adults during COVID-19. New research has looked into the unintended consequences of digital apps to solve the deficit in social connection experienced ...

As care robots gain momentum in the global aged care industry, experts are raising ethical concerns over the potential impact of replacing human companionship with technology. “Once you begin to have robots that do things that humans do increasingly well, ...

We might not be able to see it, but whenever we speak or cough or hiccup, we expel a kind of ‘mouth rain’ – a shower of tiny droplets that is thought to travel at least 1.5 metres. It is ...