Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

Nicola Stevens wears many hats. Collingwood’s first AFLW draft selection and best-and-fairest winner, and then inaugural All-Australian team member. Now at Carlton Football Club, there’s one hat she holds a little tighter than the rest, which is her ambassadorship for Dementia Australia, one she holds with poignant devotion to her own family. Her mother Ann is in her 11th year of younger onset dementia after she was diagnosed at 52. Read More

A UK study has found that in nearly 40% of cases, doctors aren’t aware that patients they are treating have dementia. A study by the University College London found that medical staff are regularly treating patients without realising the patient has previously been diagnosed with dementia. The researchers say elderly people who are living with dementia are being sent... Read More

Three employees of an aged care facility in North Carolina, USA, have been accused of running a makeshift fight club and encouraging physical altercations between residents with dementia after a tip-off to local police. Marilyn Latish McKey, 32, Tonacia Yvonne Tyson, 20, and Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 26, stand accused of watching, filming, and encouraging between... Read More