A major new Australian trial could help detect Alzheimer’s disease years earlier, giving hope to hundreds of thousands of ...

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 ...

Dementia is still misunderstood, but the Living Well program has been helping retirement living residents at Woodbridge ...

Leading public health experts have come together today to warn that deteriorating brain health is a rapidly growing public health threat in Australia, highlighting the need for preventive action. The ...

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 ...

Dementia is the leading cause of death in Australia and stigmas around the disease can delay diagnosis. But some in the ...

(xijian/Getty Images) The eyes are a window to the brain – and this outward extension of the central nervous system may ...

Making voluntary assisted dying available to those with dementia raises a host of morally, ethically and legally difficult ...

Australia's population is projected to age over the next 40 years and the number of centenarians is expected to increase ...

Dementia – an umbrella term for the cluster of cognitive symptoms caused by a number of underlying diseases or conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease – overtook coronary heart disease late last ...

Dementia is a growing health problem, affecting more than 55 million people around the world. In Australia, an estimated 433,300 people are living with dementia. This figure is projected to rise to ...