Is your heart the same age as you? A new tool from The Heart Foundation can help you find out
The Heart Foundation has kicked off a national heart disease awareness campaign with the launch…More
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11-year-old US girl raises $87,000 to grant the wishes of aged care residents
Ruby Kate Chitsey of Arkansas formed the idea for her ‘Three Wishes’ campaign after seeing…More
Did you know Australia spends less on older people than almost any other developed country?
The Federal Government spends just 4.2 per cent of its GDP on age pensions –…More
Eureka! World’s oldest Nobel Prize winner says he’s cracked the secret to cheap electricity
96-year-old physicist Arthur Ashkin won half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his…More
Going green: retirement villages tap into community gardening trend
The latest village is Australian Unity’s new vertical retirement village The Grace Albert Park Lake…More
Reviving a lost art: aged care residents connect with kids through pen pal program
23 Year 2 and Year 3 students at Moggill State School have been writing letters…More
Want to age in place? This over-55s club in Perth is helping people do it
Just the second of its kind in Australia, the Village Hub is a community club…More
Aged care residents hit all the right notes in new community choir
Led by life-long singer Dorothy Ebel, residents at Rosewood’s Leederville aged care home in Perth…More
New Victorian care Facility challenges institutionalisation and segregation
Yackandandah Health is taking a different approach to care with its intergenerational home which has…More
Kids, want the answers to life’s big questions? Ask Gran, not Google
That’s the aim of a new program being rolled out to schools that’s encouraging kids…More