Christmas is a time to bring loved ones together. For someone with dementia, events with many people and high spirits can be ...

Official data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that dementia, including Alzheimer's, became the leading cause of death in Australia in 2024, surpassing heart disease for the first time ...

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 (Nov 14).

Last year, the horror disease, which progressively degrades a person’s memory and cognitive function, took the lives of 17,549 people. The shock death toll marks a 39 per cent rise over the past ...

Dementia has become the country's leading cause of death, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS released new figures on Friday that revealed dementia, including Alzheimer's ...

The medical study at Western Sydney University is the first to pair magnetic pulses to alter brain activity with brain-training in real-life Australian settings such as grocery shopping, planning a ...

Dementia is a group of diseases that involve having trouble with memory, thinking, reasoning and other brain functions. It is often associated with "neurodegeneration," meaning processes that destroy ...