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.
Carl Hayman played almost 450 games of professional rugby, but now, at the age of only 41, he has been diagnosed with young-onset dementia. Hayman is joining a class action against the sport’s administrators claiming they should have done more to protect players.
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Trevor Crosby has Lewy Body dementia. But he wants to show people, that “you can live well with dementia”. Lewy Body dementia is one of the lesser knows kinds of Dementia, and is also known as DLB. Abnormal clumps of protein, known as Lewy bodies, develop in the main part of the brain, the cortex,...
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Those who are caring for people living with dementia must try to see the world through their eyes, says Leah Bisiani, managing director of Uplifting Dementia, who spoke at the 2018 National Dementia Conference on Tuesday. Dementia may well challenge us because of the fundamental complexity of the condition, thus within the complicated domain of...
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