Managing early onset dementia

(1 May 2023)
AUSTRALIA DEMENTIA

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - 24 March 2023

1. Various of Shirlene Colbert feeding her husband Stephen
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirlene Colbert, wife:
"Stephen was around 54 and we'd done a renovation at home and we moved out while that happened and when we moved back in, Stephen was really confused where to put things, how to find things and it just planted a little seed in my brain at the time."

3. Various of Colbert feeding her husband Stephen
4. Uniting Eabrai residential home staffer Greg Buckley and Colbert helping Stephen Colbert

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 13 March 2023

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Yun-Hee Jeon, Professor of Healthy Ageing, Sydney University:
"Alzheimer's disease is by far the most common one, and over 60% of dementia is actually Alzheimer's disease."


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - 24 March 2023

6. Communal area of Uniting Eabrai residential care centre specialising in dementia
7. Staff member looking after residents
8. Residents going into a garden


ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 13 March 2023

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Yun-Hee Jeon, Professor of Healthy Ageing, Sydney University:
"Memory is only one part of dementia. There are a range of cognitive impairments, that includes executive decision making, thought process as well as communications of individuals. You know thoughts and ideas. It also involves impaired activities of daily living, so as dementia progresses, people struggle to manage their day-to-day function."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - 24 March 2023

10. Staff member walking with a resident in the garden
11. Colbert caring for her husband in the garden
12. Pan of staff member working in Uniting Eabrai kitchen to the garden

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 13 March 2023

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Yun-Hee Jeon, Professor of Healthy Ageing, Sydney University:
"There are over 400,000 people living with dementia in Australia. And if you look at 10 years ago, the prevalence was a lot lower, and we now know that by 2058 the figure is going to double largely because the population is aging."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weston, Australian Capital Territory, Au stralia - 24 March 2023

14. Staff member and resident watering plants in a garden
15. Resident in a corridor
16. Various of resident being given a banana by a staff member
17. Residents in a garden
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirlene Colbert, wife:
"Stephen’s behaviour turned to agitation and aggression and he was diagnosed with BPSD (behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia) and he needed treatment with antipsychotics, and there was no way he could come home at that stage."

19. Colbert shaving her husband in the garden
20. Resident watering plants in a garden
21. Various of residents and staff in a garden
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Shirlene Colbert, wife:
"I mean, it was desperation at that stage. Stephen had nowhere to go. No one was going to take him, and he was going to stay in the hospital."

23. Various of Uniting Eabrai building and garden
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Sharon Kickett, Service Manager:

25. Kickett and Buckley entering the Uniting Eabrai facility
26. Various of Kickett and Buckley talking and looking at a computer
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Buckley, Uniting Eabrai Clinical dementia specialist:

28. Buckley helping resident in the garden







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