New research is adding some depth to the picture of elder abuse in Australia, with a royal commission paper estimating more than a third of Australians living in aged care facilities have faced neglect, emotional abuse or physical abuse. Around ...

Aged care homes will soon be required to report resident on resident abuse where the perpetrator has an assessed cognitive impairment. The removal of the current exemption will be part of the rollout of the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS). ...

Blowing the whistle or 'dobbing in' a manager or work colleague for illegal or unethical behaviour might seem at odds with Australian culture, but that’s the service a Melbourne-based company is providing for a range of businesses. In the current ...

Quelling elder abuse will be the charge of a national alliance, officially launched yesterday by Commonwealth Attorney-General Christian Porter, at an event hosted by Seniors Rights Service. The Federal Government earmarked funding for a new elder abuse peak body in ...

Coinciding with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the National Ageing Research Institute has called for elder abuse to be placed on the national agenda.  According to clinical associate professor at NARI Briony Dow, Australia should take elder abuse more seriously, ...

Parental consent for HPV vaccine should not be waived: US poll Most Americans support laws that allow teens to get medical care for sexually transmitted infections without parental consent. But when asked about the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), ...