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Dementia has overtaken heart disease as Australia’s leading cause of death – but most of us don’t understand why. Here’s what really makes the condition fatal. Read More

  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

This is Part 4 of The University of Queensland Brain Institute’s Brain Series on HelloCare It is often helpful to categorise dementia into stages of severity to help doctors formulate a treatment plan, and for the person and their family to consider options for care. Dementia is often divided into early, middle and late stages, but... Read More