Advice on early onset dementia
Alzheimer’s Australia has released a new publication to promote a better understanding among healthcare professionals and their patients of younger onset dementia, which affects 10,000 Australians aged under 65.
Alzheimer’s Australia commissioned the clear and accessible handbook – Understanding Younger Onset Dementia – from clinicians and researchers at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, a division of North Western Mental Health and the University of Melbourne, based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The handbook outlines the diseases which cause dementia, the patterns of symptoms associated with them and the tests which are carried out to make the diagnosis.
The publication is available on the web at www.alzheimers.org.au