Medical wards are also not designed for aggressive patients. People can enter and exit freely, potential weapons (scissors, ...

For her, life has become a constant, guilt-ridden juggle as she tries to balance raising her kids with caring for her ageing ...

But what a lot of people don’t understand is that if 20 people are diagnosed with the same type of dementia, not one of them ...

A policeman who avoided jail after he fatally tasered an elderly woman in a nursing home didn’t give the 95-year-old “any ...

OTs can support home and community mobility, such as checking a wheelchair passes smoothly through doorways and can manoeuvre ...

The most common type of fall that results in hospitalisation is a simple slip or trip at home. The Commission worked with ...

The Queensland state government is staring down a $1.2bn wage bill blackhole after using a rejected pay offer to underpin its budget. Frontline workers, like police, teachers, nurses, and firefighters ...

Younger Australians with a disability are still being forced to consider aged care facilities in their search for a place to live, with a delay in the introduction of a new Aged Care Act and several ...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for between 60 per cent and 70 per cent of all cases. Although ...