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Glucosamine supplements may speed memory loss from Alzheimer's, new research shows
1+ week, 1+ day ago (761+ words) People with Alzheimer's disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were 25% more likely to die within five years than those who didn't. That's the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Nature…...
States and territories turn on Albanese's NDIS overhaul as inquiry wraps up
1+ week, 5+ day ago (671+ words) A rare political alliance has emerged in opposition to the federal government's proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms, with disability ministers from every state and territory, crossing both Labor and Coalition governments, uniting to warn the changes risk leaving hundreds…...
All Victorian three and four-year-olds to be assessed for autism under new NDIS alternative
1+ week, 6+ day ago (874+ words) Every Victorian child aged three and four will be offered screening for autism and developmental delays under a new state government program called Thriving Kids, designed to catch developmental concerns before children reach school age. The program will funnel children…...
GPs locked out of aged care as funding and red tape take toll on patients
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (250+ words) Australia's residential aged care system is failing its most vulnerable residents, with the country's peak medical body warning that systematic underfunding, regulatory barriers, and fragmented digital infrastructure are cutting aged care residents off from regular GP care. In a position…...
How Support at Home's personal care funding changes from October 2026
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (966+ words) From 1 October 2026, personal care services under the Support at Home program will be fully funded by the Australian Government. If you or a loved one receives help with daily tasks like showering, dressing or continence management, you will no longer…...
Alzheimer's patient regains ability to talk and dress herself after magic mushroom compound
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (287+ words) An elderly woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease has shown remarkable, if temporary, improvements in speech, mobility and cognition after receiving high doses of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Researchers administered five grams of…...
How Support at Home's personal care funding changes from October 2026 - Hellocare
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (966+ words) From 1 October 2026, personal care services under the Support at Home program will be fully funded by the Australian Government. If you or a loved one receives help with daily tasks like showering, dressing or continence management, you will no longer…...
The gender tax: How NDIS cuts will quietly shift billions in unpaid care onto women
2+ week, 1+ day ago (955+ words) Women and families of disabled Australians are set to bear the heaviest load from the federal government's sweeping National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms, with advocacy groups warning that cuts to community participation funding will push care responsibilities back onto informal…...
Is it really worth getting on the pension just to avoid Labor's new capital gains tax?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (923+ words) Recent news articles have floated the idea some retirees might try to sidestep the government's new minimum capital gains tax (CGT) by qualifying for as little as A$1 of the age pension. That's because under the government's proposed tax reforms,…...
Aged care minister squirms on radio when pressed on assessment tool algorithm
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1036+ words) There is a particular kind of political evasion that is almost impressive in its audacity. Not the slippery kind, where a minister edges around a question. The brazen kind, where the question is put to them directly, plainly, repeatedly, and…...