“Who am I?” Dr John Roth posed rhetorically as he spoke to the National Dementia Conference. John is a father, grandfather, husband and friend, and was a surgeon for 40 years before his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2015. He loved his ...

“Eleanor Rigby died in a church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came.” That is the story of lonely people according to The Beatles and was inspired, in part, by the old women Paul McCartney encountered on a ...

We increasingly focus on what we eat and drink but much less attention is paid to the quality of the air we breathe, yet it can have considerable health implications. Now, RMIT researchers are working with schools and aged care ...

Latin is not a dead language when it comes to dementia design. The phrase salutogenesis is a word that guides the philosophy of Dementia Training Australia (DTA) and is derived from the Latin for health – ‘salus’, and for source – ...

The Montessori method of education was developed by the Italian physician, anthropologist and pedagogue Maria Montessori in the early 20th Century. The philosophy centres around a child’s innate abilities. It is often described as a way of learning by doing and is ...

Rural dementia carers find support hard to come by, phone numbers hard to find and often feel that local clinicians aren’t always helpful. The head of La Trobe’s John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research, Professor Irene Blackberry, said: “Often ...

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day. With that in mind, the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched some new research aimed at gaining insight into the issues women face as they grow older. The research, entitled ‘Vital Conversations with Older Women Living ...

It was just another shift working as a physiotherapist in a Melbourne emergency department. Hospitals, healthcare and aged care were all second nature to me, until I received a phone call that changed it all. It was my aunty on ...