Aged Care: Reducing Injuries from Pressure
A new research has revealed learning new methods and using sophisticated products can help increase healing time when pressure wounds are being treated in residential aged care facilities. Published in the International Wound Journal, the new study’s goal is to come...
How Social Outreach Helps Improve Aged Care
There are a number of times that schools included activities, such as an outreach, to expose students and urge them to reach out a helping hand on those who are in need. An outreach program is providing services to those people who have no accessed to it or find it...
Positive Disruption in the Aged Care Industry
Aged care has been surrounded by eye-opening stories. Among of the eye-opening stories is the number of older Australians at risk with malnutrition. Another eye-opening stories is that aged care facilities are looking less homely in terms of residential aesthetics,...
How Diet is Essential in the Aged Care Process
Commonly, when we read the word diet, we immediately think about weight-loss regimens that will remove every single food that your inner child loves. Evidently, ‘diet’ has been used in marketing strategies and exercise videos, but the word diet has a quintessential...
Australia’s Aged Care Facilities are Experiencing Expansion
Looking back, institutions in Australia were as big as hospitals in terms of facilities. People with disability and mental illness, along with orphaned children, were living in these spacious facilities. But the space also equates to more residents in the area. Flash...
New Radio Project to Aid Culturally Diverse Aged Care Communities
Australia is widely known as a culturally diverse country. For example, the city of Sydney and the state of New South Wales, where the state houses an estimated 250 different languages that came from the different parts of the world. Australia itself as a whole is...
Aged Care Residents Facing New Risk on Doctor Visitation According to Survey
In Australia, there exists around 80 per cent of Australians that are aged 65 years and up who rely on their age pension. Currently, the country houses around 3.7 million Australians aged 65 and up, which is already 15 per cent of the population. The population growth...
Introduction to Aged Care: How to Care for Elderly Family Members
It's a common scenario among people to compare the struggles of taking care of a growing child and an ageing parent. However, Iona, an ageing organisation in the United States, stated that the two are separate and should not be compared directly to one another. The...
Doctors: Aged Care Industry Need More Care Professionals
Australia is a home to an ageing population. At a glance, there are one in seven people who are within the ageing population or at the age of 65 and up. In 2016, the aged population has already reached 15 per cent of the country’s population, which is already 3.7...