The tragic case of 88 year-old Cynthia Thoresen recently made headlines in Queensland. Mrs Thoresen’s sad decline and the extent of her injuries have been comprehensively documented. Despite shocking neglect…
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Retirement can be detrimental to both mental and physical health, according to researchers at the Institute of Economic Affairs…
Local shops serve an integral role in the lives of older people as a key part of their social network. Researchers studied…
A new trial has achieved lowered rates of infection in residents and staff, fewer hospitalisations and a significant reduction…
Researchers have found a number of interventions to be successful in preventing elderly people from debilitating falls that…
If Australian governments are serious about raising rates of economic growth, they must reform the tax mix and increase the workforce participation rates of women and older people. Each of these reforms…
Fat people having sex, ugly people having sex, old people having sex. All too readily our culture cringes, shudders, if not gags at the thought. After all, if film and television have taught us anything…
Australian-born men aged over 70 have higher prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels than men of the same age born overseas…
Antibiotics are being prescribed for suspected infections without meeting the criteria for clinical infection, increasing…
Older women who have one standard alcoholic drink a day may be healthier than their teetotalling peers, a new study has found, but experts have warned that moderation is still key to ageing well. Australia’s…
Staff in facilities providing low-level care to elderly people need to develop better relationships with their patients…
The Productivity Commission has released the Caring for Older Australian report. Experts respond. Rhonda Nay, Professor of Interdisciplinary Aged Care at La Trobe University gives a general response to…
A new wearable device that predicts which people are more at risk of falls could help prolong the number of years elderly people can spend living independently at home. A third of over-65s take a tumble…
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Unit Head, Twins Research Australia and MyBRISK Centre of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Risk; Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor | Schlegel Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging | Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors, McMaster University
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