Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

Caring for a loved one can bring with it feelings of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. These things combined with the significant change to how your life is now as opposed to the life you had imagined together. A study in Ireland reported that two out of every five people caring for a spouse with... Read More

Alzheimer’s disease is often thought about as a condition that older people get. However there is a rare neurodegenerative condition which is often referred to as “childhood Alzheimer’s”. This condition, also known as Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), causes cholesterol build up in the neurons which leads to enlarged organs, lung damage, muscle stiffness, seizures, dementia... Read More

There is often a misconception that people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease have memory loss, and that they are unable to create new memories. But at a lecture from Alzheimer’s Australia last week, Professor Steven Sabat told the crowd that “thinking that people diagnosed with dementia have something called “memory loss” is harmful for a number of... Read More