Rob Stock: Death-bed promise behind Westpac’s dementia banking – Stuff.co.nz


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Rob Stock: Death-bed promise behind Westpac's dementia banking
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Then a week ago, I met Lorraine Hunter from Westpac, who made a death bed promise to her father to do something to help people living with dementia. The result was Westpac's dementia banking programme to help people diagnosed with Alzheimer's put in ...

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Dementia: Catching the Memory Thief – The Wire


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Dementia: Catching the Memory Thief
The Wire
By far the most common and well-known form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. Symptoms include memory problems, changes in behaviour and progressive loss of independence. At a biological level, the disease sees a build-up of two particular types of ...
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Robin Williams suffered from a common form of dementia that many people don’t know about – Quartz


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Robin Williams suffered from a common form of dementia that many people don't know about
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Together, DLB and Parkinson's form the second most common form of degenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease, and are said to affect around 1.4 million people in the US. Because the symptoms of DLB closely resemble those of Parkinson's and ...
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Grey/Bruce Alzheimer Society welcomes input on dementia strategy – Simcoe.com


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Grey/Bruce Alzheimer Society welcomes input on dementia strategy
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Wighton chaired the Ontario Dementia Advisory Group and Crawford joined the meetings online using technology in the Alzheimer Society of Grey-Bruce office. “This report is a good foundation to start the in-depth discussion to plan change,” said Wighton.

Memory walk at Clumber Park biggest in the history of Alzheimer’s Society – Nottingham Post


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Memory walk at Clumber Park biggest in the history of Alzheimer's Society
Nottingham Post
The event also included a Zumba warmup and a visit from the Dementia Community Roadshow. Pippa Foster, operations manager for Alzheimer's Society in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire said: "We are so pleased that so many people came to Clumber ...

Why Alzheimer disorder patients are mistaken for witches and wizards – Vanguard


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Why Alzheimer disorder patients are mistaken for witches and wizards
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Beatrice was full of life until she developed Alzheimer Disease (AD), an irreversible neuro-degenerative type of dementia that damages the brain and slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually the ability to carry out simple tasks. The ...