Samantha Freestone, Wednesday, 8th June 2022 - The Older Persons Advocacy Network has launched a new campaign to increase awareness of sexual assault in the aged care sector.An estimated 50 sexual assaults take place every week…
Luke Michael, Tuesday, 21st July 2020 - An estimated 459,000 Australians are currently living with dementiaA residential aged care village pioneering a new approach for people with dementia has opened in Tasmania thanks…
Ellie Cooper, Wednesday, 9th November 2016 - Dementia advocate Kate Swaffer has been named South Australia’s Australian of the Year for 2017. Swaffer was diagnosed with the disease in 2008, just before her 50th birthday. She…
Wendy Williams, Monday, 17th October 2016 - Anne Fairhall is a Victorian volunteer and carer advocate for people living with dementia. She is this week’s Changemaker.Fairhall’s husband Geoff developed younger onset frontotemporal…
Ellie Cooper, Thursday, 22nd September 2016 - A new virtual reality app, targeted at family carers and the wider community, enables users to see the world through the eyes of a person living with dementia.The Educational Dementia…
Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 20th October 2015 -
Seventy-six researchers will share in $43 million in Federal Government funding to support new ideas to tackle the impacts of dementia as well as find ways of preventing and curing…
Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 8th September 2015 -
Half of all people in permanent residential aged care have dementia, according to the latest figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
A report by AIHW, called…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 5th February 2015 -
Not for Profit organisations have welcomed the Abbott Government’s announcement that it will spend more than $50 million to support people with severe dementia.
Assistant…
Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 -
A Senate Committee report has found the current aged-care workforce in Australia does not appear to have the skills and training to adequately support people living with dementia,…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 25th March 2014 -
Deaths from heart disease have fallen steadily since 2003, while deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease continue to increase, according to new figures released by…
Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 20th February 2013 - An Australian-developed Not for Profit app has been downloaded by more than a quarter of a million people worldwide, with requests to make it available in more languages.
Alzheimer’s…