Aged Care & Disability Feature Articles for Australian Healthcare

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How to reduce stress when elderly are ageing at home 2/1/2020

More and more elderly are choosing to stay at home and that is when we can feel anxious and worry that something terrible may happen because we busy right?

TheraCloud: A solution for silent suffering in Aged Care 1/9/2020

Floor staff lack of knowledge can lead to incorrect pressures being set for therapy mattresses or complete system failure. A resident can be left in agony and be unable to communicate ...

How to correctly thread a buckle onto a webbing strap 11/7/2019

This video shows the correct way of threading a 50mm Curved Side Release Buckle onto a webbing strap.

New Guidelines for Blood Pressure 6/21/2019

In November of last year, the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology and nine other groups recently redefined high blood pressure.

Supagas Healthcare | We are here to help! 5/3/2019

Supagas supply the highest grade medical oxygen, medical air and equipment to hospitals, medical centres, veterinarians, chemists and patients throughout Australia.

Fallshaw Group, awarded supplier of bed movers in NSW institutions 4/30/2019

Thirty years of experience manufacturing powered bed movers in Australia makes Electrodrive's Gzunda bed movers the number one choice.

What can we learn from Japan’s healthcare technology revolution? 12/12/2018

Japan’s plan to revolutionise its healthcare system through the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data is set to be an example for other countries.

An inside scoop on the government's 'My Health Record' 10/22/2018

With the approval of all the top health bodies in Australia, My Health Record (MHR) is said to provide improvement in the medical care given to patients.

Australia’s elderly benefitting from hip and knee replacements 10/4/2018

Thanks to and world-class surgeon performance and advancements in surgical techniques, Australians over the age of 80 are now more likely than ever to benefit from hip and knee joint ...

Unhealthy lifestyle responsible for 45,000 cases of bowel cancer 9/25/2018

A UNSW study shows that a large proportion of bowel cancers in Australia are preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle – particularly for men.

Why do some people respond more strongly to placebo? 9/25/2018

Imagine if a sugar pill worked as well as an opiate for you.

Why do so many Alzheimer's treatments fail? 9/25/2018

The discovery of an aggressive feedback loop between the build-up of protein and nerve damage could be the key to explaining why so many trials of promising new treatments for ...

Royal Commission must review penalties for abuse in aged care 9/25/2018

The Aged Care Royal Commission must investigate an appropriate range of penalties for neglect, excessive restraint and abuse in residential aged care along with the need for more ...

Aged-care doesn't meet older people's emotional needs 9/25/2018

In the wake of ABC's Four Corners investigation Associate Professor Lee-Fay Low explains why Australia's aged-care system is failing older people and the fundamental shift that is ...

Can video game exercises help chronic low back pain? 9/24/2018

A study from University of Sydney found the effect of an 8-week home-based video game program was comparable to exercise programs completed under the supervision of a physiotherapist. ...

Can aspirin prolong good health? 9/18/2018

Three groundbreaking papers published in New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of Monash University researchers in Melbourne, reveal the results from a seven-year study of ...

Vitamin D no defence against dementia 7/10/2018

New research from South Australian scientists has shown that vitamin D (also commonly known as the sunshine vitamin) is unlikely to protect individuals from multiple sclerosis, ...

Sugar tax needed in war on obesity 7/2/2018

As Federal Parliament rises for the long winter break, the AMA is renewing its call on the major parties to get serious in the war on obesity by making a sugar tax a priority in ...

Guiding end of life directions for aged care 6/18/2018

Providing Australians in all parts of the nation with support and the right advice on palliative care and advance care planning will be easier, thanks to the results of a $15 million ...

Watering down of prescription legislation puts patients at risk 6/4/2018

Australian GPs are concerned a proposal to allow prescriptions to be written within pharmacies would fragment patients’ healthcare and put them at serious risk.

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