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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5 Tips to Help Manage Sundowning Syndrome

What is sundowning? Sundowning a term used widely to describe a range of behaviours that occurs in people with or without dementia that worsen in the late afternoon and evening, or as the sunsets. The behaviours you may observe during this time of the day could be agitation, confusion, anxiety, aggression, increased physical activity that... Read More

The do’s and dont’s of doll therapy

People living with dementia, particularly those living in residential aged care, have benefitted from doll therapy for years. Read More

The Best Medicine, is Simply ‘L-O-V-E’

Love Lives Here a documentary filmed in an American residential ‘memory care community’ as they refer to it in the States, preferring this term over your typical ‘nursing home’ or ‘aged care facility’ as we frequently refer to them in Australia. The community is owned and operated by provider Silverado that takes the core operating... Read More
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