We found 40% of older Australians living in aged care homes were malnourished. Malnutrition in older people is associated with poorer health overall.
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Aged care providers can’t find staff and a crisis is brewing. If the problem isn’t fixed, there are serious risks to quality and access to services for older people who need support.
Making meals more appealing and giving aged care residents more choice, sounds simple enough. But you need the right ingredients to make it work on a wide scale.
Many residents in Australia’s aged care homes are not receiving the level of care they need and are entitled to, a new analysis has found.
The federal government caps the number of home care packages it provides. When demand exceeds supply, waiting times blow out.
Lives that matter: new novels by Trish Bolton and Graeme Nash defy the stereotypes of older women in fiction.
Most of the indirect care workforce will only see a pay rise between 3% and 7%.
A new review looks at whether psychological therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, are an effective way to treat older people in aged care with symptoms of depression.
While wage rises for aged care workers are welcome, this measure alone will not fix all workforce problems in the sector.
Rather than bold reforms that will safeguard Australians’ aged care services into the future, the taskforce largely recommends tidying up and keeping the status quo. And getting users to pay more.
A government-instituted Aged Care Taskforce has recommended older Australians should pay more of the cost of their aged care, while steering clear of politically fraught options.
Australia’s aged care system is undergoing significant change, but is still governed by an act more than 25 years old. Can the government meet its mid-year deadline for the next round of reforms?
Scientists have published the first evidence that Alzheimer’s can be transmitted from person to person. Patients received human growth hormone from the tissue of donated brains.
You’re worried and you want to see them well cared for. You’ve tried to talk to them about aged care but been met with swift refusal. Now what?
Currently, when someone turns 65 they are not eligible to apply for NDIS support, even if they had disability before then. We asked experts if that should change.
Aboriginal Elders play an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. Supporting this aspect of ageing well is crucial.
In future, Australia will spend much more on aged care. This increased spending needs to be well planned, so access is protected and all older people – regardless of income – get the care they need.
The latest Intergenerational Report shows Australia less old than it was going to be, but poorer. And eventually needing to pay more tax.
Health care has traditionally focused on prescribing medications, with little focus on when to stop them. But pills and potions can add up over time and do more harm than good.
The report, to be released in full on Thursday, puts the number of people 65 and over at about nine million by the early 2060s – from nearly 4.4 million in the 2021 census
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Aged Care, Corporate Governance and Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Nursing Aged Care (Dementia), University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW, UNSW
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Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland; The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University