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A new national campaign urges Australians to change the way they think about brain health.

Glenfield House provides 28 new safe and secure homes for older women who would otherwise be homeless.

An aged care worker in south-east Queensland has been charged with 113 offences over allegedly defrauding elderly peo...

Between 2018 to 2024 data shows 2 million Australians were forgoing specialist treatment every year.

Australians are living longer than ever before. While this is broadly good news, ageing well comes with a range of ch...

The Building Better Homes campaign is urging the NSW Government to adopt improved standards for housing accessibility...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety found an overuse of restrictive practices in aged care and rec...

The government wants to hear from older people, their families and carers about the changes being made to aged care.

The Mindcare Collective is helping multicultural communities navigate dementia with confidence.

Australia has seen a dramatic transformation of retirement over the past 20 years, with more Australians delaying ret...

Age Discrimination Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM recently hosted the second Financial Elder Abuse Roundtable, bri...

If you acquire english later in life and then develop dementia you may lose fluency and find the language you spoke a...

A new report has also found dementia was Australia's leading cause of death in 2023.

A 79-year-old man has been left homeless after a dispute with an adult family member, exposing how vulnerable retiree...

Volunteers and an aged care provider work together to remind all that beauty is not defined by age.

Rockhampton detectives have charged a 55-year-old woman after she allegedly defrauded two elderly victims of a total ...

States and territories call on the federal government to do more to help elderly patients stuck in public hospitals w...

Too many Indigenous Australians die before getting to claim the age pension. We need to make retirement fairer says T...

This year’s theme is Same, Same - But Different Ageism Ageism and Respect for Older People.

Aged and disability advocates have recently given evidence at the Queensland Parliament's Inquiry into Elder Abuse.

The new report warns that Australia is not on track to deliver the necessary transformation to meet the aged care roy...

From 1 November 2025, the new Aged Care Act will give residents and families stronger rights when making complaints.

The biggest names in property have united to tackle homelessness across the country, getting behind a new foundation ...

A new practical, evidence-based resource offers tools to break down barriers and boost connections between generations

20,000 home care packages will be brought forward to be delivered before the end of October.

Current laws mean superannuation funds sometimes have no alternative but to pay out a member's death benefits and ins...

An experimental aged-care model in South Australia, is seeking to foster connections between residents and children.

When we talk about drug overdose deaths, many of us imagine a problem that affects young people.

Australian women are living longer, but with that comes varying health outcomes complicated by lower wages and more h...

A team has co-designed and trialled online training to enhance interpreter-mediated dementia assessments.