Aug 11, 2017

Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

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.

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Fewer patients with dementia die after surgery when nurses are better educated

  Patients in hospitals that employ more educated nurses have better survival rates, according to new research out of the US. The higher the proportion of college educated nurses in a hospital, the higher the survival rate, the research showed, with the strongest increase in survival recorded for patients living with dementia. In 2010, the... Read More

Dementia: Stories of Music Therapy

Gary Thorpe, General Manager of Silver Memories, a twenty-four hour music station for seniors shares with Aged Care Report Card a touching account of the benefits observed after listening to the program. Gary received a letter from a man who was the primary carer for his wife who has Alzheimer’s. Her disease progressed to the... Read More

Construction begins on Australia’s first dementia village

The first sod was turned this week on the Korongee dementia village in Glenorchy, Tasmania, marking the start of an innovative new approach in Australia to caring for those who are living with dementia. Korongee village reflects the current global drive to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia. The village is... Read More
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