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.
Caring for a loved one can bring with it feelings of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. These things combined with the significant change to how your life is now as opposed to the life you had imagined together. A study in Ireland reported that two out of every five people caring for a spouse with...
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New technology inspired by Virtual Reality (VR) and gaming is being offered to aged care workers in ACT to better educate them on caring for older people with dementia.
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We’re sad to report that the body of 87-year-old missing Perth man, Alexander Henderson, has been found at Whitfords Beach, not far from his home. Mr Henderson, who had severe dementia and hearing loss, went missing from his home in the Perth suburb of Hillarys last Thursday and had not been seen since, despite extensive...
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