Eating a healthy diet rich in vitamin A may be a way to reduce skin cancer risk, research shows. Findings from a team at Brown University were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dermatology. The researchers showed that people whose diets included high levels of vitamin A had a 17% reduction in risk for getting …
The announcement earlier in the year that occupational therapists working with NDIS clients will receive an increase in the hourly fee they are paid, is a gratifying outcome for all who lobbied hard to achieve it. An increase in the hourly rate paid by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), from $179 to $190 per …
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David Tune AO PSM has been appointed to conduct a review of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) legislation and rules, which in turn will inform the development of the Morrison Government’s promised NDIS Participant Service Guarantee. Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Stuart Robert, said the review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act …
Understanding what good quality of life means to aged-care consumers could assist economic evaluation of services, researchers say. Their work, titled A Good Life: Developing a New Quality of Life Instrument with Older People For Economic Evaluation in Aged Care, is a three-year project based at Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute, a dedicated research centre for …
Australian men are living longer than any other group of males in the world, research from The Australian National University shows. And Australian women are ranked second behind their Swiss counterparts. Dr Collin Payne co-led the study, which used data from 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia with high life expectancies. “Popular belief has it …
Two separate studies released in recent weeks have offered new insights into risk factors for dementia, and how to counter them. The bad news is that regular use of certain types of commonly prescribed drugs used to treat bladder conditions, Parkinson’s disease and depression appear to significantly increase the risk of dementia in later life. …
