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The COVID pandemic has had a huge impact on people living with dementia and their family carers around the world, with a study finding people living with dementia experienced worse symptoms after the pandemic began, while carers reported their loved ones were more disoriented, restless and withdrawn. Carers also reported poorer mental health themselves as a result of the pandemic. Read More

A potential medical breakthrough has been made in the detection of Alzheimer’s disease, where an eye test could see patients diagnosed and treated up to 20 years before they show any symptoms of dementia. A new $250 000 hyperspectral camera, the first of it’s kind in Australia, has be purchased by Macquarie University in New... Read More

Robin Williams was diagnosed with a form of dementia in his final months, but did not know it, according to a new biography. Mr Williams’ autopsy report showed he had severe Lewy body dementia; doctors who reviewed the report say it was one of the worst cases they had seen. However, in the months before he died... Read More