During National Dementia Awareness Week (21 to 28 September) CSU researchers will be available to talk about their efforts to better understand the condition and improve the quality of life of the many affected.

A CSU researcher and advocate for quality aged care has welcomed the Federal Government overhaul of the sector but says more needs to be done to improve the standard of care.

Workplace safety and how it’s put into practice by aged care staff is under the microscope of CSU nursing academic Dr Maree Bernoth and information studies academic Dr Annemaree Lloyd.

A strong and vocal advocate for quality aged care for older Australians has posed a number of questions about the future of the sector following the release on Monday 8 August of the Productivity Commission Inquiry Report Caring for Older Australians.

Concerns that the services necessary to support older Australians in inland communities may not be adequate or available in the future have prompted a new study by a team of aged care researchers from CSU.

A CSU academic has criticised the State Government for failing to ensure that older people in nursing homes are cared for by Registered Nurses (RNs).

A CSU expert has called on governments and health authorities to stress the severity and danger of preventable childhood diseases to parents, to improve immunisation rates.

Witnessing an elderly woman with terror in her eyes, shouting incoherently as she struggled in a restraint chair in the corridor of an aged care facility while staff ignored her and attended to paperwork for the facility's accreditation has led a CSU nursing academic to question the meaning of the Rudd government's coming apology to 'The Forgotten Australians' who were detained in government welfare institutions in bygone decades.