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.
By Leah Bisiani, MHlthSc/Dip Bus/Dementia and Aged Care Consultant/RN.1 Part 5 of ‘Loneliness is the Ultimate Poverty’. Please ensure you have read parts 1-4 to appreciate this information in context. Music- dance to the beat of your own drum “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and...
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The Letters of Love and Dementia Campaign emerged from a Celebrate Ageing film called Our Hearts Are Bigger, which shows Anne Tudor and Edie Mayhew opening and reading letters they wrote to each other every day for a week. The film is part of a series documenting Edie’s journey with Younger Onset Dementia and Anne and Edie’s approach to deepening their...
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Living with a diagnosis of dementia can make many older people at increased risk to other health conditions, infections and falls. Research shows that due to this increase people with dementia also have multiple hospital admissions, more so than those without the condition. A recent research has looked into the rates of readmission of older people, and...
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