Aromatherapy has been found to be effective in helping with the agitation, anxiety and irritability that often occurs in people with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.
When Helen Blayden was asked to run a pilot program for the Butterfly model of care, she wondered where she’d find the time to focus on residents’ emotions, while also doing all the other important work she had to do. A nurse for nearly 40 years, Ms Blayden was used to routines, rosters – and getting...
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Earlier in the year, an elderly Perth man was accused of killing his wife in their suburban home. He was in the later stages of cancer and his wife had advanced dementia. Harold Barclay, 85, was charged with the murder or his wife of 63 years, a woman he was described as “devoted” to. According...
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As the mystery continues around the older woman who was found walking alone along a rural Sunshine Coast road, advocates have questioned why no one has stepped up to claim her yet.
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