Timdementiachampion

03/08/2025

Must see video – Australian leading dementia researcher Professor Henry Brodaty address to the National Press Club… Professor Brodaty AO is a researcher, clinician, policy advisor and strong advocate for people with dementia and their carers.

Professor Henry Brodaty AO, Researcher, Clinician, Policy Advisor, Addresses the National Press Club of Australia on “Australians need the ‘slip, slop, slap’...

27/07/2025

Understanding Mixed Dementia……Mixed dementia is a term used in cases where a person exhibits clear clinical features of more than one cognitive disease that causes their symptoms of dementia. This podcast is the last in this 4th series. Series 5 will begin in September 2025.

There are four main diseases that cause dementia. These are Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, Lewy Body Dementias and Frontotemporal Dementias, and each of these diseases are associated with hallmark symptoms and characteristics. What i...

20/07/2025

What is the Severe Behaviour Response Team….Today you will discover who is the Severe Behaviour Response Teams, what do they do, how they do it, how you contact them, and how they are important to you and your loved one with dementia.

Australia operates a unique emergency and hands-on tactical team to support those living with dementia if their individual Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, or BPSD, becomes acute and critical and they are at risk of harm and tha...

13/07/2025

Treating BPSD’s involves a combination of interventions, including both non-pharmacological and pharmacological, and non-pharmacological is always the priority and must be used first. This episode is the last in this mini-series on BPSD. Please enjoy, Tim

The management of BPSD often involves a combination of interventions including both non-pharmacological and pharmacological, and non-pharmacological is always the priority and must be used first. There is a significant list of non-pharmacological ...

09/07/2025

Attention to all Dementia Passionate people who desires to make a real positive difference to the lives of those living with dementia and their families. Here is you chance. YOD Reflections P/L (Younger Onset Dementia) currently has a Subcontracting Support Co-ordination position available based in the Sydney Inner West / Sydney Hills Region. This is an excellent role and organisation. I should know, I work with them. Details below.

YOD Reflections are an NDIS Registered and committed to providing specific, quality support co-ordination to people with Younger Onset Dementia.

09/06/2025

Dementia and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Part 2 of a 3-part miniseries on CTE. Today we will discuss the signs and symptoms and look at in more detail the cause of CTE. Please enjoy, Tim

While CTE may be a novel neurodegenerative disease it does have a well recorded history. CTE is well known about and is a neurodegenerative disease which is linked to repeated head trauma. Hall mark symptoms often include changes in behaviour...

01/06/2025

Press Release - CTE Action Week …. ConneCTErs is pleased to announce the "TACKLECTE" campaign during CTE Action Week to raise awareness and support for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. This crucial week aims to improve support for those living with and caring for a person with CTE, promote prevention strategies, increase vital funding, and bolster essential research efforts. This is the Inaugural CTE Action Week.

We provide public, community and business dementia education that builds awareness of dementia, provides practical solution to assist people with dementia and carers to live full lives in their community, and seek to de-stigmatize dementia more broadly.

01/06/2025

I believe CTE is the Asbestosis of the 21st century. - CTE is a big subject to cover so we will discuss CTE over 3 separate podcasts. We will discuss probable causes, the disease signs and symptoms, diagnosis and identification, and the potential impact within Australia for current and future grassroots sporting and recreational activities. This is the first of 3 podcasts on CTE.

Concussion and traumatic brain injury in contact sports and their links to dementia have again been in the media spotlight. Many retired professional athletes have recently revealed that they have been diagnosed with probable Chronic Traumati...

25/05/2025

Urinary Tract Infection and Dementia. Urinary Tract Infections or UTI’s in dementia are often overlooked, miss-understood, poorly treated, and symptoms are regularly mistaken as part of the progression of dementia. Today we will discuss how UTI’s impact your loved one with dementia and how they can be treated. Cheers, Tim

In the very first series of Dementia Demystified there is an episode called ‘The 3 D’s of confusion - Dementia, Delirium and Depression’. There you discovered that your loved one with dementia could experience a sudden and acute state of confusion...

18/05/2025

More ways to make you home dementia friendly… By making some simple changes to their home supports people living with dementia to feel independence and comfortability and allow them to continue to enjoy their home. Please enjoy. Tim

It’s important to remember, for a person living with dementia, living at home can give them a sense of independence, a feeling of safety and comfortability, and allow them to continue to enjoy their homeBy making some changes to their home, many t...

15/05/2025

Series 4 of the podcast Dementia Demystified starts 19th May 2025 6.00am Sydney Australia time. You can listen to Dementia Demystified on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy… Tim

22/04/2025

This is hard to watch, be it needs to be seen.... CTE is here.

Former Newcastle Knights board member and St George second rower, is now needing one-on-one care. But sometimes even that is not enough.Read the full story:h...