Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

Last year Kate Swaffer, the Chair and CEO, and a co founder of Dementia Alliance International, was maliciously accused not having dementia, to the point of feeling bullied by a reporter into disclosing decades of private, confidential and very personal medical to strangers and lawyers, and providing two highly confidential medical documents to the reporter.... Read More

A Queensland aged care worker ‘spiked’ the drinks of two elderly women with a sedative so that they would sleep through the night, the Townsville Magistrate’s Court has heard. The two women, who were aged 95 and 93 at the time of the incident, both had severe dementia and often woke during the night and... Read More

  Wendy Mitchell, who has written a best-selling book about living with dementia, says if you tell people with dementia that they ‘suffer’, it is more difficult for them to find hope, adapt, and find fulfilling new ways to live their life. Ms Mitchell spoke earlier this week at the Hay Festival in the UK,... Read More