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Around 440,000 Australians live with dementia and almost 1.5 million Australians are involved in their care. However, dementia training is currently not mandatory for aged care and home care workers. Dementia Australia chief executive Maree McCabe last week told the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality that about 70 per cent of the aged care... Read More

In Australia, more than 350,000 people now have the disease, with a projected one million likely diagnosed within the next 40 years. This year, in particular, there has been a huge breakthrough thanks to a new discovery. Australian trials for a new Alzheimer’s drug began this month in Melbourne, which shows incredible promise in halting... Read More

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