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Emergency departments are stressful for any patient who finds themselves admitted to one. But it can be especially challenging for older patients who may weak and frail, and may be confused and agitated in a busy emergency department where there are other distressed patients and medical staff rushing all around them. According to the Australian... Read More

Depression can be difficult to recognise in a person with dementia, however, it should be noted that having both conditions can actually be very common. Depressive symptoms, such as lack of energy or poor sleep, have been reported to occur in approximately 40-50% of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Depression and Dementia are two separate conditions... Read More

When the average person in the street is asked to describe what a seniors life might involve, more often than not, ‘aged care facility’, ‘retirement village’ and ‘hospice’ will be banded about but this approach to senior living is being challenged by those in its midst. Increasingly seniors are re-writing the script of how they... Read More