Aged Care
Sydney, July 13, 2020: With five Australians under 40 diagnosed with Parkinson’s every day[i], Parkinson’s NSW has launched the first-ever ‘No Escape Room’ to simulate what life is like for people living with the disease. ...
Older adults who survived hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and return to their homes face substantial health challenges and an unforeseeable future. Early evidence suggests that complex and long-term physical, functional, cognitive, and emotional negative health ...
Families longing the emotional stress of placing a spouse or relative into care, often tell us that they find a number of the terminology surrounding the different forms of care home quite confusing. In response ...
Abuse doesn’t discriminate. People of all ages, ethnicity, environment, and gender may be vulnerable or at risk. The purpose of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is to raise awareness, support and prevention of elder abuse, ...
Neuroscientists have carried out extensive research into how music affects the neutral pathways and connections in our brains and how listening to music can provide essential emotional and behavioural benefits for those living with dementia – the ...
Routine visits and data gathered by doctors will now be enough to accurately predict a person’s risk of devleoping Dementia and its related diseases. A non-invasive method to predict dementia has been developed by scientists ...
“𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗲, 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗸. 𝗡𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 – 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱!” Pioneering volunteering ‘buddy scheme’ that brings together students ...
Vitamin D appears to help reduce serious complications among coronavirus patients, according to a study. “Whereas there are currently no results from randomised controlled trials to conclusively prove that vitamin D beneficially affects Covid-19 outcomes, there is strong circumstantial evidence ...
One of the greatest challenges that adult children face as their parents get older is concerns around their driving. Despite being such a common issue faced by many people, there’s little guidance on how to ...
Australia’s residential aged care industry consists of an estimate of 902 companies that provide 200,689 residential places. Many aged care services are government subsidised to assist keep costs manageable and affordable. Today on the Healthcare ...
As Australia continues to monitor the COVID-19 virus challenge, precautions such as social distancing and the rules around gatherings and travel have made our annual ANZAC Day Commemoration plans change significantly in 2020. However, Director ...
Telehealth is the remote delivery of healthcare using information and communication technologies. Telehealth services may include virtual consultations, remote patient monitoring, and maintenance of electronic patient health records (Mayo Clinic 2017). Tell me more…. As ...