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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

The federal government’s response to the Royal Commission’s findings is a rare opportunity to make a once-in-a-lifetime difference to the experience of people impacted by dementia, says Dementia Australia CEO Maree McCabe. Read More

Did you know that women are more likely to have Alzheimer’s disease than men? A 65 year old woman is twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s than a man at the same age. And at 75, it becomes three times as likely. A 2012 report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reported that... Read More