The Aged Care Royal Commission reported deep concerns about the over-reliance on medication or chemical restraint in residential aged care, including referencing one devastating family story... Read more
The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks this fortnight at how COVID-19 has led to better approaches for homelessness and poverty, the importance of civic trust, the retur... Read more
Every week, a different guest tweeter takes charge of Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, and uses the account to cover specific health issues or events. Last week,... Read more
How do presidential contenders Donald Trump and Joe Biden stack up when it comes to COVID-19? How will the pandemic continue to affect us, even if a vaccine is developed? And how are bilbies... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell reports on critical aged care concerns, the latest developments in climate health, recent dementia research and other new reports... Read more
The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association launched the Enhanced Nurse Clinics project in 2016, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health under the Nursing in Primary Health... Read more
In a recent article at Croakey, the Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health, Julie Collins, suggested the Federal Government was dragging the chain in responding to a “pile of aged care... Read more
Health experts say antipsychotics continue to be used at worrying rates to manage behaviour of people with dementia in Australia, despite evidence they can cause significant harm and that no... Read more
On the same day that South Australian legislators voted narrowly against voluntary euthanasia, Professor Fran Baum was contemplating how such legislation would have helped her late mother, N... Read more
The latest news from the Better Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) study, as recently covered at Croakey, raises some questions about the quality of dementia care, says Carol Bennett, chi... Read more
