CANBERRA - Dementia was the leading cause of death in Australia in 2024, becoming the country's top killer disease for the first time on record, according to official data released on Friday. The data ...

The national peak body supporting people living with dementia, Dementia Australia, has said it's "disappointed" after the Therapeutic Goods Administration rejected a "disease-modifying" Alzheimer's ...

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Victoria Garcia is in the advanced stages of dementia, and doesn’t speak much at all. She is being cared for at home in Dapto south of Sydney by her husband Antonio, whom she met when they were ...

Katya is a co-founder of Y-Care of Dementia, a support network for Australians in their 20s and 30s who are caring for someone living with dementia. Serena Sabatini does not work for, consult, own ...

An international collaboration, co-led by a University of Minnesota Medical School researcher, has published a new paper in ...

Now a team led by world-leading dementia researcher Kaarin Anstey is hoping to prove early intervention can slow or eliminate its progress. Professor Anstey, who designed the Cognitive Health and ...

Australian musician Emma Sheppard has spoken of her decision to undergo IVF so she could genetically test her embryos for ...

Mrs Danijela Hliš speaks with SBS Slovenian about the importance of Dementia Awareness Month. Dementia Awareness Month 2018 September is Dementia Awareness Month. Visit dementiafriendly.org.au and ...

A negative bidirectional link between cancer and dementia exists, with cancer treatment offering some protective benefits against dementia risk. A recent study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia ...

I offer tailored counselling by phone or video for people navigating neurological conditions and age-related cognitive changes, as well as for their adult children coping with their parents' evolving ...