Aug 11, 2017

Aromatherapy for Sundowning – VIDEO

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.

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Challenging the behavioural paradigm- The right to express yourself

“ People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other”.  Martin Luther King Stereotypes based on assumptions become part of how we think, how we believe others should act at certain... Read More

Memory Town: The Remarkable Benefits of ‘Time Travel’ Therapy

The World Health Organisation estimates that there are roughly 50 million people in the world currently living with dementia, and that Alzheimer’s Disease accounts for 60-70% of these cases in total. Alzheimer’s disease primarily affects the elderly, damaging the brain and resulting in diminished cognitive abilities which usually can have a devastating effect on a... Read More

Challenging Dementia Symptoms: Delusions, Hallucinations and Paranoia

One of the most common misconceptions about dementia is that it simply causes memory loss. However this could not be further from the truth. There are over 100 different types of dementia, and along with it a wide varying range of symptoms that are as unique as the people that they affect. Some of the... Read More
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