Studies have shown that Aboriginal Australians living in remote areas of the country are disproportionately affected by dementia, with rates approximately double those of non-Indigenous people. A new ...

CHRIS ULHMANN: Aboriginal people are three times more likely to suffer dementia than other Australians, and at an earlier age. That's the finding of a Northern Territory study that has prompted calls ...

In 1910, Australia appointed one public official as the legal guardian of every Indigenous child on the continent. The Protector of Aborigines — a truly Orwellian title — then launched a campaign to ...

The clock-drawing test – a classic of mainstream medicine – was found long ago to be unreliable in the towns and settlements in and around Kimberley cattle stations. It simply never worked for almost ...

Improving the impact of high dementia rates on Indigenous Australians and communities is the focus of a University of Queensland-led telehealth project with a global track record of success.

Just when you thought it was safe to go out, a relatively newly discovered form of brain degeneration which affects at least one in four older people with dementia, and could explain why Alzheimer's ...

When May Armstrong was a little girl, growing up on an Aboriginal mission and running from place to place with her family to avoid being institutionalised as part of the Stolen Generation, her father ...

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