This year, International Nurses Day coincided with Mother’s Day. Nicky Hondros, a palliative care nurse shared her and her mum’s heartfelt story and provided a little glimpse into what it’s like caring for someone living with dementia.
Because dementia is commonly associated with old age, many don’t realise that the condition can be diagnosed in those as young as in their 30s. In Australia, there are currently around 400,000 people living with dementia. Of those, nearly 26,000 have what is known as ‘younger onset dementia’, the term given to dementia when it...
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Recent research conducted by Dementia Australia has identified that discrimination against people living with dementia is real and so entrenched that even those at risk expect to experience some form of discrimination.
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Watching someone you love slowly withdraw from the pleasures of life, from relationships formed and change from the person you loved (and still love immensely love) into all I can explain as a mere shadow of themselves. It may not be the correct terminology/language and I certainly don’t intend to offend, but how else do...
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