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.
Virtual Reality (VR) is once again transforming the way care staff understand the challenges faced by people living with dementia – by literally “seeing” it.
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When a person has dementia, they may experience significant behaviour changes as a part of their condition. This can be attributed to a number of causes, it could be symptoms of their dementia or other changes in their condition, it could be because of changes to their medication, for some it may be because of...
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A call to action has been made for more mental health beds to be available for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Recently, a Western Australian man living with dementia had murder charges against him dropped after he was accused of fatally stabbing his wife. The 88 year old man, who is waiting...
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