Australia “does not currently meet the human rights of people with dementia to timely and accessible health services of appropriate quality or to participation in health care decisions,” according to members of the National Institute for Dementia Research Special Interest Group in Rehabilitation and Dementia.
Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia today, the authors wrote that Australian services for people with dementia are “fragmented, challenging to navigate and hard to access.”
“Dementia is the leading cause of disability, the second leading cause of death in Australians aged over 65 years, and the leading cause of death in…
