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.
Dementia is a complex condition that affects not only those living with it but their families and friends as well. People they have loved and shared life with for decades are displaying great changes in personality and behaviour. This can be deeply troubling for those seeing and responding to these changes. Apathy is a relatively...
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A groundbreaking Australian study has established a link between dementia and increased levels of self-harm within the first six to 12 months after diagnosis.
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Nicola Stevens wears many hats. Collingwood’s first AFLW draft selection and best-and-fairest winner, and then inaugural All-Australian team member. Now at Carlton Football Club, there’s one hat she holds a little tighter than the rest, which is her ambassadorship for Dementia Australia, one she holds with poignant devotion to her own family. Her mother Ann is in her 11th year of younger onset dementia after she was diagnosed at 52.
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