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• Advice
Awareness week starts conversation on wound management
This week marks an important date in the calendar in raising awareness of chronic wounds and wound care across Australia.

• Allied Health
• · Dementia
Government invests in NSW and TAS mental health
Older Australians are expected to be among those to benefit from a record spend on mental health that has been announced in the New South Wales (NSW) 2018-2019 Budget and another funding boost has...

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• · Caring & Carers
$800,000 investment aims to boost training opportunities for aged care in Tas
The aged care industry in North West Tasmania has welcomed an $800,000 investment from the opposition Labor Government to boost training opportunities for future nursing and aged care workers.

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• · Government
Australian aged care peak body partners on My Health Record
A new partnership has been announced between one of the aged care sectors leading peak bodies, and the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA).

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Elderly emergency care program continues to rollout across Queensland
A cost-cutting fast-tracked emergency department program proven to improve the outcomes of elderly patients is expanding into Cairns and Ipswich, with the help of a recently secured $100,000 grant.

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WA welcomed to national aged care system
The transition to a “truly national” aged care system is almost complete as the Commonwealth Government prepare to take over control and introduce Western Australians to the Commonwealth Home...

• Advice
• · Allied Health
Dental Implants For Older Adults – What Are The Benefits?
SPONSORED STORY – Oral health and decisions surrounding dental can be an unexpected part of ageing for many older Australians, with statistics showing that people aged over 65 are significantly...

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• · End of Life
End of life care project engages in second phase
Additional initiatives, new partnerships, technology innovation and policy roundtables are all part of the second phase of the End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) project, which was launched...

• Advice
• · Allied Health
Toilet humour trialled to tackle incontinence
Humour is being used to ‘hit back’ at a growing and silent health epidemic that leaves more than five million Australians embarrassed, in pain and at risk of anxiety, depression and other serious...

• Allied Health
Home care service in SA set to take on new life
One of South Australia’s (SA’s) largest providers of home-based care for older Australians, Domiciliary Care, is set to be moved from a Government to non-Government provider following a...

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Improved aged care access for nation’s First Peoples at the heart of a new report
A landmark report focusing on the gaps, roadblocks and barriers experienced by older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, has been released during a Roundtable event at Parliament House in...

• Advice
• · Allied Health
Older males urged to make the most of Men’s Health Week
Males of all ages across the nation are this week being asked to take some time for their health as part of the annual campaign – Men’s Health Week.

• Advice
• · Allied Health
How MedicAlert can help with your advanced care directive
SPONSORED STORY – Advanced care planning should be a routine part of your health care, even if you’re not living with an existing medical or health condition, and, although it may be scary,...

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Ageing population to blame for increased palliative care hospitalisations
Australia’s growing and ageing population, paired with a rise in chronic and incurable illnesses, is being blamed for an unprecedented increase in palliative care hospitalisations across the nation.

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• · Research
Aged care facilities welcome opportunity to “RedUSe” sedative use
Effective intervention through staff education, frequent review and audits of age care home medication use, has the potential to reduce the historical overuse of low benefit, high risk psychotropic...