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.
Cleaners are helping dementia patients at a regional hospital after a 16-bed dementia unit was closed, a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into regional health has heard.
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Carers who hold down jobs, but are up at night trying to settle someone living with dementia, will struggle to get enough sleep. They get run down, worn out and eventually can no longer cope. “That's when the rubber really hits the road.”
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Transport by ambulance can be a distressing experience for people with dementia. Noisy, enclosed, and unfamiliar, the environment can exacerbate symptoms, destabilise a person’s psychological health.
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