The wife of Hollywood action hero Bruce Willis has shared with delegates at the International Dementia Conference 2026 about the traumatic initial days after her husband’s diagnosis, ...

A diagnosis of dementia at 44 came as a relief not a shock for Sean Kelly.

A traumatic period of misdiagnosis, medical brush offs and distressing interactions with first responders has prompted dementia awareness advocate, Julane Bowen, to call for steps to ...

Last week I spoke to someone who was certain the word ‘Alzheimer’ was German for ‘old timer’. “Because that’s who gets dementia – old people,” she said. Wrong on both counts, I’m ...

Julane Bowen’s mother called her ‘stubborn’, but without that often very valuable trait, she believes her husband Jeff would now be dead and Julane herself would have been filled with ...

Australia’s aged care system is under intense pressure. Demand for residential places is rising fast, construction costs remain high, and providers are being asked to deliver more ...

Two-thirds of people living with dementia are currently living at home, and want to stay there.

The Australian aged care sector is undergoing one of the most rapid and far reaching reform periods in its history. The pace, scale and depth of change is being strongly felt in day to ...

As Western Australia faces the nation’s fastest rise in dementia diagnoses, the need for supportive environments is more urgent than ever.

Looking for simple changes to your spaces that will lead to better engagement with people in your care? Here are five ideas that fit the bill...

For carers of people living with dementia, seeing someone in evident distress but not always knowing the cause or how to relieve their symptoms is heart-breaking.

Despite what many people think, people enjoy having sex into old age. And there’s no age limit on affection or intimacy.

In early September we had the pleasure of welcoming a distinguished delegation from Taiwan to Sydney. The group included representatives from the Taiwanese Ministry of Health and ...

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How a rural aged care provider transformed their dementia care, in partnership with Hammond Innovations... A tiny town in western NSW, about 70 clicks south of Tamworth, is not where ...

Adapting the principles of dementia-enabling design to an apartment building can be full of challenges, but HammondCare Darlinghurst is a master class in matching concept to context, ...

Our timeline shows a daring journey, moving towards improved quality of life for people in need, dealing with more and more complex conditions, building our expertise and understanding ...

HammondCare has revealed plans to build a new centre of excellence for the complex care of older people, to be built on the grounds of the current Greenwich Hospital – and Hammond ...

Above: Hammond Innovations Executive General Manager Anna Barker with HammondCare CEO Andrew Thorburn. We’ve all heard the news – dementia is now the leading cause of death in ...

News of celebrity Bruce Willis' diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has created huge media interest, and an outpouring of sympathy for the actor - our thoughts are also with ...

The estimated 28,000 Australian families who face the stress of caring for someone with younger onset dementia urgently need more tailored support.