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Dementia training vital for aged care staff

With around 70 per cent of people with dementia living at home – many accessing home care services, and over 50 per cent of residents in care diagnosed with dementia, it is crucial that all care staff are equipped with…

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Resolutions to improve your health and wellbeing

Happy New Year and welcome to 2020. The New Year just starting is a great time for new beginnings, and to put into place those sometimes elusive New Year’s resolutions. There are new beginnings for our organisation too, as we…

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Tackling the tricky topics

Are you comfortable talking about the subject of mental health, sexuality or death? What if you were talking to your kids, partner or parents, and the subject was your own mental health, sexuality or death? Many people will find at…

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Use it or lose it mentally

While you can’t do anything to guarantee you won’t develop dementia there is a growing body of evidence that you can significantly reduce the risk of developing it. It’s previously been shown that higher levels of education early in life…

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Murray and Robin’s Story

Murray was 76 years old when he realised that he needed to see his GP about problems he was having with finding the right words to say and remembering details of past events. He was referred to a Memory Clinic…

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Tom’s Story

After I was informed that exercise is beneficial to a person who has ‘acquired’ Parkinson’s Disease, I set out to find an exercise program that would be appropriate for me. Consideration needed to be given to the availability of the…

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Angi and Michael’s Story

Teenage sweethearts married at the tender age of eighteen, Michael and I were an invincible team raising three talented, successful and amazing children who are now married with families of their own. However, all those years ago nothing could have…

Senior lady holding a baby and remaining socially active

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Person at centre of care

Person-centred care. It’s the new ‘buzz word’ for aged care, and it seems you can’t talk about aged care without it. But what exactly is it? Person-centred care isn’t something that can be bought, or created with a fancy new…

Senior couple sitting together on a jetty.

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Diagnosing younger onset dementia a complex process

One in 13 people diagnosed with dementia in Australia are diagnosed before the age of 65. Known as younger onset dementia, it affects almost people 28,000 nationally, and around 2,800 people living in Western Australia. As younger onset dementia affects…

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Help is at hand for those with a diagnosis of dementia

They say in life the first step is often the hardest. Whether it’s starting a new relationship or ending one, going for your first job interview or re-entering the workforce after a long absence, taking those first few physical or…

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Dementia training vital for aged care staff

Resolutions to improve your health and wellbeing

Tackling the tricky topics

Use it or lose it mentally

Murray and Robin’s Story

Tom’s Story

Angi and Michael’s Story

Person at centre of care

Diagnosing younger onset dementia a complex process

Help is at hand for those with a diagnosis of dementia

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