Yesterday afternoon the Federal Government announced the termination of the Dementia and Severe Behaviours Supplement, a scheme introduced by the Labor Government to provide additional support to those suffering the most severe and debilitating symptoms of dementia.
The Assistant Minister for Social Services Mitch Fifield declared the Supplement had gone well beyond the budget allocated to it by the previous government.
Around 1000 delegates and a field of international experts are expected at the Sydney Hilton today to talk sex, drugs and rock and roll in the lives of people living with dementia.
Risky Business 2: This Time It’s Personal is a yearly dementia conference conducted by The Dementia Centre in partnership with HammondCare that tackles deeply personal issues effecting the 44 million people living with dementia around the world.
Over 140 friends and clients of a unique integrated aged care site came together last Friday to celebrate the first National Open Day in South Australia.
The Resthaven Paradise campus, which integrates a residential facility, community services and the University of Adelaide Geriatrics and Research in Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre, hosted an array of community-friendly events to showcase its positive and healthy approach to ageing.
Chinese aged care practices lag about 15 years behind Australian standards, according to a Victorian delegation recently returned from cross-cultural exchange.
Ten staff from Southern Cross Care in Victoria (SCCV) travelled to Changun in May for a 12-day study tour to exchange industry best practice with the Chinese.
The heads of Western Australia’s two biggest aged care groups will sleep outside on winter’s longest night of the year to raise money for homelessness.
Bethanie boss Chris How and Amana Living chief executive Ray Glickman will join around 870 business and community leaders willing to brave the cold and experience a glimpse of the desolation that so many Australians face every day.
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Over 100 aged care providers across the country will open their doors to the public this Friday in celebration of Australia’s inaugural National Open Day.
Australia will join the UK, South Africa and Malta in this year’s tribute to older people and the services available to assist them.
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Aged care providers from across New South Wales convened in Sydney last Wednesday to discuss the introduction of an independent rating system to assist consumers weighing up their residential aged care alternatives.
Launched in Melbourne on April 16, The Aged Care Rating System (ACRS) is a benchmark tool for providers that offers consumers an unbiased assessment of their options.
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Video game developers from Melbourne have created a virtual forest, complete with birds, bees and butterflies, to engage people living with dementia.
Alzheimer’s Australia Victoria has partnered with Opaque Multimedia to head the project, which has become the first serious application of advanced gaming program Unreal Engine 4 in Australia.
The Federal Government’s Living Longer, Living Better reforms are designed to give consumers a more robust and transparent model of aged care, as well greater choice on how they pay for it.
Yet the reforms are less than a month away from effect and a good proportion of the general public remain confused as to how they will work for them.
Earlier this year MasterChef matriarch Maggie Beer pledged her commitment to improving the quality of food consumed by elderly Australians in aged care homes.
The Maggie Beer Foundation (A Good Food Life for All) was launched in February, guided by the belief that every meal should bring comfort and pleasure.
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