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.
Cleaners are helping dementia patients at a regional hospital after a 16-bed dementia unit was closed, a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into regional health has heard.
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Food is much more than something we consume to give us sustenance. Families gather over food and talk about their day. We feast on special occasions like Christmas and Easter, and we eat special foods to celebrate, such as on birthdays and anniversaries. Sometimes people with dysphasia may be excluded from these gatherings altogether.
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Dementia is one of the greatest health threats to our senior generation, though it hasn’t become relegated to just being older. While 342,000 Australians now live with dementia, the numbers show 5% of this population deal with it under the age of 65. Despite all of us knowing how diffuse dementia has become, we don’t always...
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