by Emilee O'Grady-Shorten | Jun 9, 2025 | Feature, Health
Imagine waiting for your elderly mother to become hospitalised, so that she can get the care she needs. Daughter Catherine McKnight has lived through that wait. For the past ten years Ms McKnight has been caring for her elderly mother who was diagnosed with dementia...
by Hayley Prenter | Apr 8, 2024 | News
The number of people living with dementia in Australia is expected to surge 94 per cent in the next 30 years. Dementia Australia estimates more than 421,000 people are currently living with dementia. Without a medical breakthrough, it is projected this figure will...
by Stefanie Schultz | Oct 19, 2022 | News
The Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute is searching for participants for a six-month study into the cognitive benefits of eating purple foods. The study, led by the University of Wollongong’s Professor Karen Charlton and associate Dr Vinicius Andre de...
by Caitlin Pace | Jun 5, 2019 | Feature, News
He lived in the same house for over 40 years, but couldn’t remember what street it was on. His wife passed away four years ago, but he often didn’t know why she never responded when he called her name in the middle of the night. According to Alfred Price, watching his...
by Tess Brunton | Sep 30, 2014 | News
There are a number of misconceptions surrounding dementia and that’s partly because people don’t want to discuss a set of conditions as debilitating, yet vague, as dementia. Most people don’t want to talk about the disintegration of a mind, but with the creation of...
