Professor Joseph Ibrahim gave an impassioned hearing at the royal commission on Thursday, delivering a damning assessment of Australia’s aged care system, and laying down his suggestions, based on decades of research, for improvements. Prof Ibrahim is a consultant specialist in geriatric medicine, who teaches and researches patient safety and aged care at the Institute of...
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Relationships between everyday-people and their pets can obviously mean a lot, but new research is showing that pets can actually be the difference between life and death for some older people. Sadly, suicide has become all too common in the older age demographic, highlighted by the little-known fact that men over the age of 85...
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A worrying trend is the assumption that people with cognitive impairment cannot be expected to maintain a healthy weight, but as experienced professionals point out, the diminished ability for self-care can and should be matched by improving identification and solutions.
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