Allied Health · Nutrition Smart eating is the key to a healthy weight A healthy weight isn’t just about losing weight, it’s about eating smart, and achieving and maintaining a healthier...
Allied Health · Mental Health COTA calls for Mental Health Care change When a recent Fairfax Media investigation revealed wide-spread mental healthcare neglect of residents in aged care...
Allied Health · Positive Ageing Hearing rehab helps adjust to living with hearing aids A large percentage of hearing aids, and sometimes very expensive hearing aids, end up in cupboards and drawers rather...
Allied Health · Caring & Carers Medicare-funded doctor home visits threatened After-hours visits by doctors to households and aged care homes are under threat however, cutting the service is...
Allied Health · End of Life General Practice nurses encouraged to talk about death Aiming to introduce advance care planning into general practices in a sensitive and routine way, the national federally...
Advice · Allied Health Are your vaccinations up to date? Vaccinations for children usually take the headlines however a lot of people don’t know that as we get older our...
Allied Health · Providers Study finds a circle of silence surrounds sleeping tablet prescription A new study has found doctors may be overprescribing sleeping tablets, also known as benzodiazepines, for older...
Allied Health · Providers Minister opens community health hub A new TLC Primary Care community health hub, located at the Forest Lodge residential aged care home in Frankston North,...
Allied Health · Education & Training Helping GPs with nutrition education to overcome chronic illness With a recent report released from the World Health Organisation on the almost four-fold increase in diabetes, Griffith...
Allied Health The nurse practitioner will see you now SPONSORED STORY – They’re the nurses who are able to provide basic primary health care and can prescribe and...