Hospitals and Healthcare

The move to a long-term care facility is often difficult but necessary for frail patients. For their partners, it can mean a new set of challenges.

VR programs are popping up in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities across the country, with claims the tech helps with mood, memory loss and loneliness.

Citing worker shortages, nursing home operators said the standard could not be met without additional funding for higher wages.

The decision to move a loved one with dementia into residential care is an incredibly difficult one. These considerations may help.

High quality medical and health care delivered by doctors and nurses must reside at the heart of the Australian aged care system

As I helped feed these residents, I understood how our common humanity makes us ‘infinitely responsible’ to others.

Expanding suicide prevention frameworks to include aged care residents, aligning nursing home life with community living, and improving residents' access to mental heath services will be key.

Epenesa Pahiva was so badly burnt after being bathed in bleach, she spent six weeks in hospital — now the nursing home she resided in has been told to review how it trains staff.

A unique social experiment that brings together elderly people in a retirement community with a group of 4-year-olds. Could this encounter between young and old help transform the lives of the elderly?

The specially adapted environment is keeping people healthier and happier for longer, early evidence suggests.

His story shows how a few bad life turns can send Americans — even vulnerable elderly people with dementia — into the streets.

A series of hurdles prevented the facilities from shielding older people, despite the best efforts of staff. Experts are calling for reforms before the next virus arrives.

The alleged misuse of a bed hoist at an aged care home in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs left an 84-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease with severe bruising under her arms.

The government could save billions over the next four years by preventing unnecessary hospitalisations with improved access to doctors and nurses in aged care, the Australian Medical Association says.

Our relationship with music begins at birth, if not before, and plays a role in the formation of our identity when we are young. Now a heart-warming movement called Music & Memory is creating personalised music playlists for residents with dementia in nursing homes—who use their mobile device to hear it.

As Covid-19 surges around the country, workers in nursing homes and assisted living centers are watching cases rise in long-term care facilities with a sense of dread. Many of these workers struggle with grief over the suffering they've witnessed.

Doctors and nurses warn that elderly Australians will continue to suffer if the issue is sidelined until the royal commission hands down its findings. 

Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds is a heart-warming documentary series, based around a unique social experiment where a group of older retirement home residents are brought together with a group of preschoolers, to see if this inter-generational contact can improve the health and well-being of the older people, thus helping them to lead happier, and healthier lives.

There is one conversation in medicine that I hate having: telling patients they need residential care

The failure of regulators to take decisive action against errant companies is an unintended consequence of the design of 'responsive regulation'.