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Time to speak up about dementia

By Alice B on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Australia has the potential to influence how international governments deal with dementia when it takes to the world stage at this year’s Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Brisbane.

Alzheimer’s Australia has joined the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) in the campaign to place dementia on the agenda when the G20 meet this November to discuss economic issues of global importance.

Private home care takes pressure off

By Alice B on Monday, February 24, 2014

When Maureen Mahoney’s mother-in-law started showing the early signs of dementia, she began weighing up her residential care options.

It wasn’t until she stumbled across an advertisement in the local paper that Maureen discovered her mother-in-law did not have to leave her beloved home to get the care she needs.

Tuning in: residents get targeted content with "in-house" TV channel

By Alice B on Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Aged Care Online Managing Director Ben Hannemann dropped into the Golden Days Radio studio yesterday morning to chat with presenter Dudley Chamberlain about his latest venture, Web2TV, and how it can bring the glory days of radio back to those who lived them.

Book launch: The Hen That Laid The Golden Omelette

By Alice B on Thursday, February 13, 2014

Retired-nurse Barbara Potter AM and artist Barbara Davison share more in common than their birth name.

Both are passionate about maintaining the dignity of people with dementia.