Video: The importance of nutrition for seniors

  The coroner has recommended the Tasmanian ambulance service rewrite its policies around refusal of treatment after a 75-year-old woman twice refused to be taken to hospital and two days later died. Tasmania’s ambulance services visited Feryne Hunter twice in the two days before her death, but both times she refused to be taken to hospital.... Read More

Vulnerable residents rely on aged care staff for protection. Here’s how aged care leaders can screen out individuals with psychopathic or harmful tendencies before they step into a care home. Read More

  What we usually mean when we say that someone has ‘died of old age’ is that they have died as the result of a combination of factors that might not be immediately obvious. As we age, the chance that we will suffer from a range of medical conditions increases. Our immune system becomes weaker,... Read More