The South Australian government is trying to speed up the transfer of hospital patients into aged care, but advocates say ...

Australia, where Thoresen lived, is a developed, wealthy nation considered progressive in its treatment of seniors. But even in high-income countries, the rate of abuse is 4 to 6 percent, according to ...

An independent report released Sunday by the Australian Institute of family Studies (AIFS) determined that the Australian government’s plan to address elder abuse has been “valuable.” The report ...

As living costs grow in Australia, growing impatience among younger generations for early access to inheritance is fueling a rise in elder financial abuse. Anne (not her real name) only realized the ...

Disturbing reports of slavery and human trafficking behind the closed doors of aged care homes have been exposed by nurses in ...

Australia’s Department of Health has released a new Aged Care Digital Strategy to increase the use of digital technology to enhance the care and wellbeing of older people in aged care facilities. By ...

New research has given policymakers and aged care providers first-hand insights about how to uphold dignity and meet the ...

Asmita Manchha is employed as a Research Fellow in the Bolton Clarke Research Institute. Her views are her own as a researcher and do not represent the views of the aged care provider she is ...

Digital health technologies give health and aged care systems the opportunity to deliver cost savings, efficiencies, stronger safeguards and more seamless connections to other services. A review of ...

And government should work with industry to develop new funding options to facilitate this, in order to make aged-care funding more sustainable as the nation’s population ages, according to the ...

Vinh Dao remembers his mother bedridden in hospital, both hands clutching a sheet of paper tightly to her chest. On it were phrases, translations between English and Vietnamese: "I need to drink." ...