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.
Stress is an unavoidable part of everyone’s life. It can come in smaller forms – like a school exam or a deadline at work – and also larger more lasting ways – like a personal tragedy. A new American research suggests that these larger stressful life events, such as the death of a child, divorce...
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“Wandering” is a controversial word when it comes to dementia. Why so? It’s common for health professionals and family carers to refer to “wandering” as a symptom of their condition but some dementia advocates, as well as people living with dementia, do not like the term. And perhaps rightly so. They may even go as far...
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The benefits of gardening and being in nature have long been intuitively understood. More recently, researchers have brought scientific rigour to what many felt instinctively: that being outside and involved in the growing of plants is good for us, both in body and mind. In the New South Wales Hunter Valley, a dementia day...
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