New medication app for staff working with people with dementia
Dementia Training Australia has released a new mobile app to assist staff involved in medication management to provide quality use...
Month: October 2017
Resource shares latest research on healthy ageing
Consumer lobby group National Seniors has launched an online resource to help connect older people to evidence-based information on healthy...
Why light matters in dementia care
A new book to be launched next week guides aged care providers and care professionals on how to optimise lighting...
Project to boost rates of advance care planning in the bush
Palliative Care Australia and the Royal Flying Doctor Service are partnering to help raise awareness of the importance of advance...
Growing old without children: aged care’s sleeper issue
The experiences of older people who are childless are being overlooked in aged care policy and planning despite their growing...
Face to face planning to become standard in NDIS
The new CEO of the National Disability Insurance Agency has announced on Wednesday it will ditch phone-based planning and introduce...
Survey finds limited public understanding of dementia
More than 80 per cent of Australians do not know that dementia is the second leading cause of death in...
Choice and control to hit home support next
From left: Lynda O’Grady, Dagmar Parsons, Andrea Coote, Norman Swan, Michael Culhane, David Tune and Sean Rooney Limited data on...
Boosting knowledge of consumer rights under CDC
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is undertaking a CDC aged care project with the aim of educating consumers about...
Creating responsive aged care for Muslim communities
ACH Group CEO Ray Creen, ACH Group cultural competency business partner Majhabeen Ahmad, Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt, Peregrine...
Upskilling aged care workers to care for people ageing with HIV
Ita Buttrose speaking at the launch of a new training program for frontline aged care workers in Perth. A nationally-accredited...
Project to canvass views on “cashing out” home care budgets
A new project is underway to capture older people’s experiences of self-management and their interest in a cashed out funding...