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The impact of oral health won’t stop at the mouth — how six minutes might help
Signs to look out for include extended gum bleeding, receding gums and loose teeth. While periodontitis can’t be reversed, it can be stopped in its tracks and managed with dental treatment.

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• · Dementia
The 17-year gap between research and results for dementia care

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• · Finance
COVID-19 and the aged care financial fallout

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• · Caring & Carers
You should be alarmed: can older people escape a fire?

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• · Government
How can aged care change to help us live at home longer?

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• · Culture Awareness
How texting has enhanced our loved ones’ aged care experience

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• · Home & Community
Pick up chicks at TriCare’s Upper Mount Gravatt home

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• · Finance
‘Not valued for their work’ — aged care confusion leads to exclusion in wage increases
Head of not-for-profit aged care provider, Whiddon’s Chief Executive Officer has shared his solidarity with the many staff who remain unsure whether their pay will increase this year.

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• · Caring & Carers
What do young people gain from aged care work?
Kay hopes that her inspiring and insightful experience may offer younger workers an amazing alternative to their career plans.

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• · Health and Wellbeing
Researchers break new ground in Parkinson’s disease treatment
As a person ages, their likelihood of developing Parkinson’s disease increases exponentially — the prognosis, however, is that the person’s condition will continue to worsen in severity and...

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• · Caring & Carers
Community Vision’s plea for technology in aged care

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• · Government
Advocates for older persons back controversial changes in aged care
As the majority of residential aged care facilities continue to operate at a loss, face staffing shortages and retention issues, some rural and remote providers are wondering whether they will be able...

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• · Government
New Victorian funding for medications, mental health and mobility
Older people can also decline in mobility, thinking skills and the ability to care for themselves when in hospital, unrelated to their illnesses.

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• · Culture Awareness
Grim new findings about isolation in older men
This International Men’s Health Week also coincides with Loneliness Awareness Week making the timing of the ‘Age Well, Together’ campaign even more significant.

• Advice
‘We Need to Talk About Ageing’ author Melissa Levi offers advice
David McManus, journalist with Talking Aged Care, speaks with Clinical Psychologist and author of ‘We Need to Talk About Ageing’ Melissa Levi, about the nature of getting older and ageism...