Central Coast aged care provider partners with ET Australia
11 May, 2022Not-for-profit aged care provider Alino Living is taking a new approach to recruitment with a partnership with Employment and Training Australia (ET Australia).
Trial finds promising treatment for dementia
10 May, 2022A Monash University-led study has found a new treatment that stabilises escalating behavioural issues and reverses brain shrinkage due to Alzheimer's and dementia.
Positive trial results for Alzheimer's drug Xanamem
28 April, 2022Actinogen Medical has announced positive results for its lead drug Xanamem, reporting that it has demonstrated improved attention and working memory.
New scoring tool measures delirium severity
08 April, 2022Called the DEL-S delirium severity score, the tool provides severity measures that are significantly associated with clinically relevant outcomes.
Dementia: top 10 unanswered questions about medicine use
31 March, 2022Up to 93% of people living with dementia have experienced at least one medicine-related problem, leading to potentially harmful effects, but how do we improve these odds?
Dementia: rates set to double, leading cause of death in women
22 September, 2021Dementia, an umbrella term for several conditions that gradually impair brain function, was the leading cause of death among women — around 9200 deaths in 2019.
A small-scale approach to aged and dementia care
09 March, 2021 by Tamar Krebs, Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes AustraliaThe Group Homes Australia model is a small-scale care model that focuses on residents' abilities rather than their disabilities, providing health and social benefits.
