Aged Care
Innovative Experts and talented emerging researchers have an opportunity to access almost $4.8 million in funding for Project Grants, Fellowships and Innovation Grants through the Dementia Australia Research Foundation. As part of the 2021 grant ...
Improving air quality may improve cognitive function and reduce dementia risk, according to several studies reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference® (AAIC®) 2021 in Denver and virtually. Previous reports have linked long-term air pollution ...
The Morrison Government is continuing to support residential aged care providers in Greater Sydney and across New South Wales with emergency preparedness and response activities and introducing more stringent reporting requirements to protect senior Australians. ...
One of the constants in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic is that we are continuously learning and focusing our efforts to increase protection levels, particularly for the most vulnerable people in our community. A ...
The ultimate goal of the research is to help design a strategy to stop prion disease in humans — and, ultimately, to translate new approaches to work on Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Case ...
Restrictions across Victoria will ease on Friday as the state records 5 new locally acquired COVID cases. One “concerning” case involves a vaccinated nurse at a private hospital. Acting Premier James Merlino has announced that ...
A couple who travelled from Victoria through the NSW while infectious with COVID-19 have presented a “real and present danger” to the communities and places that they have visited according to Health Minister Brad Hazzard. ...
A second Arcare Maidstone resident has tested positive for COVID-19. The second resident’s initial test had been previously indeterminate and further testing showed a positive result. The 89-year-old man, the second resident to test positive ...
Adults who have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely to have an ischemic stroke later in life compared to adults who do not have OCD, according to new research published in ...
Victoria reported 5 new local cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. One of these cases was a health worker in a Melbourne aged care facility where not all of the residents have been vaccinated. These new ...
The initial results from a world-first, 10-year study of more than 100 nursing and allied health graduates have found that the more time students spend in rural areas, the more likely they are to stay ...
The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer’s disease, late in life is associated with abnormal blood levels of dozens of proteins up to five years earlier, according to a new study led by researchers at ...