Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

By Leah Bisiani, MHlthSc/Dip Bus/Dementia and Aged Care Consultant/RN.1 This is part 4 of a 5-part series, ‘Loneliness is the Ultimate Poverty’, written by Leah Bisiani. Please ensure you have read parts 1-3 to appreciate this information in context. The language of communication People living with dementia often attempt to search for such meaning by... Read More

  A government committee has heard that Australia’s regulation of the use of physical and chemical constraints is in breach of human rights conventions. Former aged care minister Ken Wyatt approved the new regulations to limit the use of chemical and physical restraint in April 2019, and they became effective in July. But a special... Read More

With more of us living into old age than at any other time, dementia is increasing steadily worldwide, with major individual, family, societal and economic consequences. Read More