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• Research
How do emotions affect people with aphasia?
New evidence suggests that people with aphasia may find it harder to retrieve words if there is a positive or negative connotation associated with them.

• Dementia
• · Research
Australian researchers hope to answer the age-related trillion-dollar question
Hearing loss is considered a vital priority in addressing global rates of dementia.

• Research
• · Safety & Security
Could pandemic planning for vulnerable people replace the need for vaccines?
Do you believe selective lockdowns are unfair to older people?

• Positive Ageing
• · Research
Researchers discover why some people’s brains aren’t impaired by ageing
Why do some people experience cognitive decline in later life whereas others appear fine?

• Caring & Carers
• · Research
New hope for Australians with Huntington’s disease
Huntington’s disease can be a devastating diagnosis to receive as there are currently no treatments. However, new research has emerged, highlighting the possible benefit of consuming a...

• Research
How does ageing affect the ability to remember?
New research has revealed that memory disruptions could begin in middle age and last for a lifetime.

• Research
• · Safety & Security
Older people at risk of heart disorder from antipsychotic medications
Antipsychotic medications are often viewed as a last resort option for managing the aggressive symptoms of dementia, but could they do more harm than good?

• Products
• · Research
New tech to make hearing aids as popular as glasses for older Australians
Older Australians are ‘very comfortable’ with wearing glasses to adapt to vision loss, but new research has also shown that people are slow to use hearing aids. A new product aims to...

• Health and Wellbeing
• · Research
How to help older Australians cope with disasters
Are you ready to face the heat this summer?

• Research
Hearing difficulties linked to the onset of dementia
If you live with hearing loss, closed-captions when watching television could prevent the onset of dementia.

• Advice
• · Government
Key findings about bone health revealed at Parliament House aged care event
More than 1.2 million Australians are living with osteoporosis and the prevalence is on the rise

• Dementia
• · Research
The impact of sex on Alzheimer’s disease
Have you heard of estradiol?

• Research
• · Technology
Removing ageing cells could treat age-related diseases
Do you think there’s more to health than simply getting older?

• Culture Awareness
• · Health and Wellbeing
An underdiagnosed condition in older adults could pose driving hazards
Do you live with this condition? Let the team at Talking Aged Care know!

• Culture Awareness
• · Health and Wellbeing
How medications impact women differently than men — the new model for meds
Have you had a different reaction from your partner to the same medication? This could be why.