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There have been countless research over the past few decades that indicate exercise is good for the body and mind – especially in the elderly. Living a more active life can help prevent and lower the risk for heart disease, diabetes, dementia and help people live longer. Victoria University research has found that outdoor exercise... Read More

Queensland Professor, poet and outspoken aged care reform advocate, Sarah Holland-Batt, has won the $60,000 Stella prize for her poetry collection The Jaguar which features poems about watching her father die from Parkinson’s disease and experienced elder abuse in aged care. Read More

Seniors in Darwin who have been assessed for nursing-home-type care and who don’t have family who can adequately look after them, have been forced to live in hospital due to a shortage of nursing home places. Royal Darwin Hospital says it has 24 patients who have been assessed for aged care who are living in... Read More