With around 185,000 Australians living with dementia and with many more cases expected as our population ages, finding ways to prevent and treat this debilitating disease is crucial, the Australian Government Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, said today.

A key partnership between RSL Care and Southbank Institute has delivered an innovative learning program that allows aged care workers to gain formal qualifications in the course of their daily work.

A taskforce of experts on dementia has been formed to guide the implementation of more than $320 million of Australian Government supported projects tackling new projects around prevention, treatment and care for people with dementia and their carers, the Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, announced today.

Complete series of Dementia programs from The Rural Health Education
Foundation are available for free on DVD or VHS video

VICTOR HARBOR - Victor Harbor is 40 years ahead of the rest of Australia in terms of its ageing population.

And, the City of Victor Harbor hopes to use this statistic to try to attract federal funding to plan and better cater for its aged population.

A service that advises thousands of older South Australians about their care and support options has been given renewed funding of $3.2 million to continue its information role over the next three years, the Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, announced today.

Tasmanian pilot leads to national nursing project - aged care - 2005

Aged care student nurses across Australia are set to benefit from a $336,000 national demonstration project launched today by the Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, at Queen Victoria Home for the Aged.

Divisions Network Addressing Aged Care Home Survey Findings

The Aged Care GP Panels Initiative – 2004 Aged Care Home Survey, which was released today by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, highlights a range of challenges that are confronting the aged care sector in relation to primary medical care.

As the influenza season approaches, all aged care homes need to be examining their infection control practices in readiness.  Vaccination plays an important part in prevention and the influenza vaccine for 2005 has now been released.

Australia has been accused of failing the growing aged population by not demanding mandatory reporting of abuse of the elderly.