An 86-year-old Adelaide Hills man has tragically personified the problem's surrounding assessments in the aged care system, requesting euthanasia under SA's Voluntary Assisted Dying laws rather than continue to wait for in-home care. Cyril Tooze was approved for a Level ...

Data has revealed a large increase in the number of people living in New South Wales who cannot afford to visit their GP. The NSW Council of Social Services (NCOSS) report Access Denied: Australians Locked Out of Quality Healthcare, conducted ...

Juliane Roemhild, La Trobe University and Sara James, La Trobe University In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles asked: “All the lonely people – where do they all come from?” The answer to that question is complex, but loneliness is a widespread ...

The Australian government has announced the introduction of three new staffing quality indicators to the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (QI Program) for residential aged care. The additions, scheduled to come into effect on April 1 2025, will ...

As the dust settles on the highly anticipated introduction of a new Aged Care Act, many who stand to be affected by the changes are now calling for amendments. Last week data from the Aged and Community Care Providers Association ...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has decided not to register Alzheimer's drug lecanemab (LEQEMBI) on the basis that "the demonstrated efficacy did not outweigh the safety risks associated with the use of this medicine." Lecanemab is an antibody infusion therapy ...

A survey conducted by an Australian aged care peak body has revealed that seven in 10 providers are concerned with the speed at which Labor's sector reforms are being rolled out, with 80 per cent saying they are worried the ...

Barely one-in-100 rentals in Australia are affordable for the average nurse, construction worker, early childhood educator or hospitality worker. Anglicare Australia has crunched the numbers and finds essential workers who can get a rental have essentially no money left to live ...

The team behind Australian designed, purpose-built tablet Lumin, used their expertise in tech and design into the "world's easiest tablet for seniors", with their efforts being recognised in the product category at this year's Australian Good Design Awards for Excellence ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed this week that dementia is projected to become the nation's leading cause of death. In 2023 dementia was the second highest cause of death behind ischaemic heart disease, however, less than 250 death ...