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  There is a history of Alzheimer’s disease in the family of Iranian photographer, Jalal Shamsazaran. Both his father and his aunt had it, and his grandfather too. This thread running through the family history led Shamsazaran to begin documenting his father’s journey with Alzheimers’ in a project titled ‘The loss of oral history (The... Read More

Many older people ageing in place have been entirely on their own for months. For those in residential care, a large number of them living with dementia, this isolation has also been particularly hard. Many have been asked to stay alone, isolating in their rooms, visits from family banned or severely curtailed. Read More

One of our readers has shared her story of the resident-on-resident abuse her mother fell victim to while in temporary care. She is calling for cameras to be introduced in all aged care facilities. Susan Cosgrove’s mother, Mary*, who has dementia, went into temporary care recently after she suffered a small bleed on her brain.... Read More