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.
Dementia cafes are becoming more popular in Australia and overseas, with a new coffee shop in Japan catering to older people with dementia - creating a welcoming community for customers and their caretakers to come and be themselves, regardless of what symptoms of dementia they may experience.
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When artist, Tony Luciani, set up his new camera blocking the doorway to his apartment’s only bathroom, he had no concept of the chain of events he had just set in motion. Tony soon became absorbed in experimenting with the camera’s various dials, buttons and settings. But his elderly mother was living with him at the...
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A new report from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has shown the majority of instances of unreasonable force reported in the sector involved interactions between residents and more than half of those residents had severe cognitive impairment.
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