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New NPS Direct article reveals that vaccinations fight against antibiotic resistance

During Antibiotic Awareness Week (18-24 November) NPS MedicineWise is urging health professionals to use vaccinations as one important way to limit Australia’s use of antibiotics.

22 Nov 2013

New NPS Direct article reveals that vaccinations fight against antibiotic resistance

During Antibiotic Awareness Week (18-24 November) NPS MedicineWise is urging health professionals to use vaccinations as one important way to limit Australia’s use of antibiotics.

22 Nov 2013

ABC50plus launches new and user-friendly website

ABC50plus, a company that offers quality software solutions for aged care facilities, retirement villages and those in the 50 and up age group, has just announced the launch of its new and user-friendly website.

5 Oct 2013

FM market for healthcare in Australia expected to grow at annual rate of 3.1%, finds new analysis

In 2012, the public healthcare sector in Australia was more than twice the size of the private healthcare sector in terms of hospital beds and total hospital expenditure. While private healthcare and other small to medium medical facilities do provide facilities management opportunities, it is mostly to small and medium FM companies. The larger and well-established FM providers will mostly come into play with the successful implementation of public private partnerships model in the healthcare sector.

25 Sep 2013

Be Medicinewise Week 2013 to focus on the health of Australia’s ageing population

Be Medicinewise Week is on again from 14-20 October 2013 and this year will highlight how older Australians can get wiser about their health and their medicines.

27 Aug 2013

QUM report helps manage antipsychotic medicine use in residential aged care facilities

NPS MedicineWise and Webstercare have collaborated for the first time on a project to assist in the review of antipsychotic medicine use in residential aged care facilities.

12 Aug 2013

Robotic animals can help improve quality of life for people with dementia, says research

Robotic animals can help to improve the quality of life for people with dementia, according to new research. A study has found that interacting with a therapeutic robot companion made people with mid- to late-stage dementia less anxious and also had a positive influence on their quality of life.

24 Jun 2013

Animal robots for dementia treatment: an interview with Professor Wendy Moyle, Griffith University

A robotic cat was first trialled in the US in early 2004 as a companion pet for people with dementia. A number of nursing homes have either ‘toy’ or robotic animals that they use as entertainment for older residents as well as people with dementia.

5 Apr 2013

Preventing falls in older people: an interview with Professor Lindy Clemson

We often think of tripping over a step edge or pathway obstruction but there can be a range of things that can contribute to a fall. One of the most common is that our ability to balance can be reduced. This means that we don’t recover from a trip and are at more of a risk of losing our balance.

29 Aug 2012

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Pearl Scott lifts the baby from the crib and balances the child on her hip, just as someone did with her when she was a baby 20 years ago. Her mom went through addiction treatment here in the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest's residential center. Now Scott works for NARA, operated by and for Native Americans. She helps care for the 10 children, all 5 years old and younger, of parents in treatment.

30 Jun 2012

Care home residents denied right to consensual sex due to fears over safety and ageism

Concerns about safety, and ageism, are needlessly denying elderly care home residents what is often one of their few remaining pleasures - the right to consensual sex - say specialists in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

26 Jun 2012

Health budget focuses on dental and aged care

The states need to increase the number of public dental patients they treat or lose the reward payments offered by the federal government under its new $500 million dental package. A total of over $800 million of new money has come into the focal points of the health budget - dental and aged care.

9 May 2012

Dementia burden on the Australian economy raises concerns

The report by the World Health Organization and Alzheimer's Disease International added that policy priorities should include raising awareness of the disease ensuring timely diagnosis. It estimates the global cost of dementia is more than $600 billion per year.

11 Apr 2012

Dementia sufferers and caregivers unhappy with quality of care

Dementia patients and their families have been asked to assess the quality of care available to them. Their reports are far from satisfactory. Alzheimer's Australia says dementia patients and their carers are being let down right across the health system. The Federal Government has promised to use the report to help decide how to improve the system.

9 Apr 2012

Aged care needs an immediate boost

According to coalition of 28 groups, including health professionals, unions and charitable organisations the aged-care system needs to be overhauled and improved to avoid an imminent crisis. They warn that the aged-care system, designed in the 1960s needs to be revamped.

30 Jan 2012

Elderly and ill patients connect to their doctors via broadband: Pilot Australian project

Now elderly patients and severely ill cancer patients will be able to see their specialist or GP with the click of a mouse, even if they are hundreds of kilometres away. This will be possible with a $20.6 million pilot program that starts this July. The program will use the national broadband network to deliver telehealth services to older Australians, cancer patients and those in palliative care.

23 Jan 2012

Cognitive function may be a better indicator of impact of aging on an economy

Cognitive function may be a better indicator of the impact of aging on an economy than age-distribution, with chronological age imposing less of a social and economic burden if the population is "functionally" younger, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

20 Dec 2011

Aged care News and Research

New NPS Direct article reveals that vaccinations fight against antibiotic resistance

New NPS Direct article reveals that vaccinations fight against antibiotic resistance

ABC50plus launches new and user-friendly website

FM market for healthcare in Australia expected to grow at annual rate of 3.1%, finds new analysis

Be Medicinewise Week 2013 to focus on the health of Australia’s ageing population

QUM report helps manage antipsychotic medicine use in residential aged care facilities

Robotic animals can help improve quality of life for people with dementia, says research

Animal robots for dementia treatment: an interview with Professor Wendy Moyle, Griffith University

Preventing falls in older people: an interview with Professor Lindy Clemson

Longer looks: Native American rehab facility helps families in Ore.; Growing popularity of home births; Sexuality in the nursing home

Care home residents denied right to consensual sex due to fears over safety and ageism

Health budget focuses on dental and aged care

Dementia burden on the Australian economy raises concerns

Dementia sufferers and caregivers unhappy with quality of care

Aged care needs an immediate boost

Elderly and ill patients connect to their doctors via broadband: Pilot Australian project

Cognitive function may be a better indicator of impact of aging on an economy

2012 to open up opportunities in booming Australian home care industry

Dementia patients have poor outcomes in hospital

Humour therapy as effective as antipsychotic drugs in managing agitation in dementia patients

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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