Aromatherapy has been found to be effective in helping with the agitation, anxiety and irritability that often occurs in people with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.
When a young person is diagnosed with dementia, there are limited options available for them when it comes to the time they can no longer remain living at thome. Many end up living in residential aged care facilities for no other reason than it was the only option available to them. However, Natasha Chackwick, chief...
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Would you want to know if you were going to develop dementia? A new five-minute test is said to be able to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 15 years before symptoms appear.
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There are only very limited treatments available for vascular dementia at present – but that could be about to change. A trial of a Chinese medicine is being expanded here in Australia, and if the initial studies are anything to go by, the results could be promising. The drug being trialled is called Sailuotong (SLT),...
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