Healthy Ageing Partnerships

01/09/2026

A local Dementia and Related Disorders Conference is happening later this month at the Mooloolaba TAFE. This is one of many events we have on our calendar. Check out the website calendar regularly to stay up to date on what's happening in the healthy ageing space.

31/08/2026

You know you have entered the parallel universe of residential aged care when you find yourself saying, “Just to clarify, the deposit for the room is $1.95m, and the charges will be about $10,000 a month?”

Like all the privatised care services, the business of aged care is about property, cheap labour and public money

23/08/2026

As we age, dementia risk increases dramatically, but it doesn't have to be inevitable. Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty shows us the science of cognitive resilience: how some people maintain sharp minds, while others decline. Henry Brodaty is a researcher, clinician, policy advisor and strongly advocates for older people’s mental health!

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18/08/2026

In case you missed it, here is the link to watch the 4 Corners special on Support At Home on iView.

Anne Connolly investigates the government's new "once-in-a-generation" aged care reforms - finding families waiting in limbo and a secretive algorithm that experts say often gets funding wrong.

13/08/2026

Interesting paper on how your diet can be responsive to reduce your dementia risk.

Dementia is now recognised as one of the fastest-growing chronic global health burdens, with prevalence projected to nearly triple by 2050, yet only a minority of cases are driven by fixed genetic causes.

The 2024 Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care now lists 14 modifiable risk factors that together account for an estimated 45% of the population-attributable risk. Well-established contributors include obesity, hypertension, diabetes, depression, hearing loss, smoking, physical inactivity, social isolation, alcohol misuse, and air pollution. Newly added in the 2024 update include high LDL cholesterol and untreated vision loss. Importantly, many of these are dietresponsive.

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09/08/2026

Tasmanian scientists are a step closer to developing a computer test that can detect dementia, decades before any memory symptoms emerge, new research has found.

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04/08/2026

The speech every aged care leader should read
In her final National Press Club address, Inspector-General Natalie Siegel-Brown delivered a powerful critique of the aged care system, arguing Australia is spending billions in the wrong places and focusing on the wrong solutions.

Could prevention, not more aged care beds, be the answer?

Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown has urged the Government put prevention at the aged care system's core.

02/08/2026

HAP President, Cheryl Harris recently appeared in front of the Senate Inquiry into the Support At Home program. Earlier in the year, we put a submission into the enquiry, which led to an invitation to speak directly to the Inquiry. You can read our submission on our website - https://healthyageingpartnerships.au/hap-submission-to-support-at-home-inquiry/

https://www.thesenior.com.au/story/9317986/older-australians-slam-disgusting-support-at-home-prices/

Long waits and spiking costs continue to plague aged care system.

31/07/2026

26/07/2026

New Queensland research is showing strength training could delay a devastating dementia diagnosis by up to six years. They say frailty can accelerate the onset, and a secret weapon could be healthy eating and pumping iron.