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• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
Spiritual based care important for older people
Meaningful Ageing Australia has released a research-based guide focusing on helping aged care staff to incorporate spirituality into care for frail older people, to benefit the wellbeing of seniors...

• Products
• · Providers
​Australian aged care technologies wins big at international awards event
Multiple Australian aged care companies creating technology and system improvements for the industry won awards at the seventh Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards in Singapore recently.

• Home & Community
• · Housing
Changes to Default Electricity Offer benefits older Australians
The Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER) has decided to reduce energy bills between certain thresholds, benefitting older Australians struggling with paying their increasing electricity bills.

• Caring & Carers
Labor’s rental strategy could save $11 billion and reduce homelessness
The Australian Labor Party’s National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) plan announced late last year has the potential to fix the affordable housing problem while creating 49,000 jobs, addressing...

• Caring & Carers
New technology to detect Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) mirror is being developed to detect symptoms of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases in the home.

• Advice
• · Caring & Carers
Launch of new advance care directive online tool
Online tool, ExSitu, was successfully developed and trialled last week with the program empowering people to take charge of their personalised healthcare and align it with their core values.

• Caring & Carers
• · Dementia
Giving a voice to those unable to verbalise pain: PART 2
Earlier this year we looked at how PainChek®, the world’s first smartphone pain assessment and monitoring device, uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and smartphone technology to give a voice to...

• Allied Health
• · Positive Ageing
Your guide for a pain relief regime
SPONSORED STORY – Ongoing and persistent pain is inconvenient, tiring and frustrating! Simply tolerating discomfort isn’t a positive long-term solution.

• Allied Health
Expo a ‘one-stop-shop’ for healthcare professionals
The 2019 Australian Healthcare Week has doubled in size and will feature 70 percent more speakers and content than last year, showcasing the latest solutions and technologies shaping healthcare now...

• Home & Community
Feros Care and Google partnership to give seniors more control at home
New technology will give seniors living at home up-to-the-minute details about their care and allow them to manage their appointments – all with a simple voice command from the comfort of their...

• Education & Training
Training program to help staff walk in patients’ shoes
An Adelaide aged care provider will be the first to trial ‘empathy suits’ as part of a staff training pilot program to help simulate the physical challenges faced by older patients and those...

• Allied Health
Mandatory repositioning a turn for the worse
The mandated practice of two-hourly repositioning of residents in aged care facilities to prevent bedsores is ineffective and could be causing more harm than good, a University of New South Wales...

• Advice
• · Nutrition
Advice on how to age gracefully with and without cosmetic surgery
SPONSORED STORY – Ageing is a natural process that many Australians embrace, but for some the desire to look in the mirror and see a more youthful face looking back is hard to shake. The good...

• Allied Health
Better continence support available now
Workers across the growing aged care and disability support sectors are set to be better supported in delivering quality continence care to consumers in the community all thanks to the development of...

• Leadership
• · Products
Start-up set to start conversations at upcoming conference
The focus is turning to technology start-ups in some of the sessions and speeches scheduled for next week’s Information and Technology in Aged Care (ITAC) 2018 Conference in Adelaide from 21-22...