OTs can support home and community mobility, such as checking a wheelchair passes smoothly through doorways and can manoeuvre ...

The most common type of fall that results in hospitalisation is a simple slip or trip at home. The Commission worked with ...

A policeman who avoided jail after he fatally tasered an elderly woman in a nursing home didn’t give the 95-year-old “any ...

Under the new Aged Care Act, people aged below 65 years can only access government-funded services if they already live in ...

Although scientists have made significant progress in understanding the disease, there’s still no cure. That’s partly because ...

The Queensland state government is staring down a $1.2bn wage bill blackhole after using a rejected pay offer to underpin its budget. Frontline workers, like police, teachers, nurses, and firefighters ...

An Australian peak body is using Wound Awareness Week (15–21 August) to push for the government to start recognising wound-related harm in aged care. Advocacy ...

Speakers at a recent symposium discussed the problems with dementia care in the hospital system – and what’s being done ...