A review into medicine safety and preventing avoidable medicine-related harm in older patients has found it is very much a major public health concern that requires further research.
Annabelle Pound is a key member of human-centred design firm, Designit. She and her colleagues believe that in order to deliver true quality of care for elders across the nation, providers must move away from the ‘one-size fits all' approach. BIANCA ROBERTS reports
At a Melbourne Design Week 2022 narrative portrait exhibition by Monash University’s Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre and the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), ways to design for ‘civic good’ are being championed to empower people to ‘design the world they want’.
The Federal Government has announced it will provide $3.7 million to UniSA to create a training site in Port Lincoln encouraging nursing and allied health students to pursue a career in aged care.
A recent study by Monash University has found that among healthy older adults, social isolation and low social support are strong predictors of overall cardiovascular risk.
In the face of a rapidly ageing global population, governments, health services, and other institutions are not prepared for this demographic shift, according to a new report.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine are part of the newly established Precision Aging Network, which will focus on how and why individuals experience aging differently.
Population growth, especially in the older cohort, will be one of the great public policy challenges of this century. A new book by former deputy secretary of the department of immigration Abul Rizvi reveals that without significant planning and reform, our health systems will struggle to cope.
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