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Around 400,000 people were living with de­mentia in Australia in 2022, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, making it one of the country’s most signific­ant health issues. With the size of our ageing...

11 years ago, aged care and dementia nurse, Tamar Krebs, wanted to create something better. Today, Videri Australia (Videri Australia) has 21 specialist homes across all regions of Sydney, with six more in development. The DCM...

“It’s a nice thing for doctors to have something besides a diagnosis to give.” When Brendan Greer was diagnosed with dementia at age 61, he and wife Jenny felt all their life plans fall away. “We’d...

Last March, Judy Mayfield, President of the Association of Residents of QLD Retirement Villages (ARQRV) told me when the Village Manager goes home at night and on the weekends, the residents become the carers for village...

In early September, the Department of Health and Aged Care released its final draft report on the design principles and guidelines for renovating or building aged care facilities. One of the three principles in the report...

Published 27 August on the Sun Herald, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, WA Today and The Age. Donna Ward has clear, though disappointing, memories of the conversation she had with the doctor when her sociable, creative...

Videri Australia, leading dementia care provider, has launched its first Rementia Together Retreat (21st to 25th of August); making Videri Australia the first provider to deliver a Government-funded program in a retreat format out of the...

Hear Tamar Krebs interviewed by Sarah Macdonald about what to do after a dementia diagnosis and the Videri Australia model. Hear from ABC Listeners calling in with their own stories. Listen to the interview by clicking...

Gwenda Darling was diagnosed 11 years ago with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia — a rare form of the illness which affects behaviour and personality. The geriatrician told her she might have around five years to live....

Ellen Fanning and the panel speak with Tamar Krebs and with Dementia Advocate Gwenda Darling on a new Videri Australia support program for people with a recent dementia diagnosis.