The State of Childhood Dementia in Australia 2024 report calls for urgent action to improve research into treatments that can improve and extend lives, as well as better support for families.

CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 9 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking new report, "State of Childhood Dementia in Australia 2024," released today at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra by the ...

Instead, healthcare professionals focus on symptom management and family support, including: In a 2023 research review of childhood dementia in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom ...

What followed was a panicked trip to the hospital and a battery of genetic tests that diagnosed her with the rare one-in-200,000 condition CLN2 Batten Disease, a form of childhood dementia.

Until June 2024, Bella Baker was a walking, talking, thriving 1.5 year old with the world at her feet. Now she has been ...

Shortly after her first birthday, Bella Baker could talk in full sentences, recognise letters and floated around like a ...

"This is a crisis in unmet need in our own backyard," said Megan Maack, CEO of Childhood Dementia Initiative. "We are facing a situation where children are dying without receiving the necessary ...

The Baker family returned home from Western Australia on Monday ... Now she has been diagnosed with childhood dementia and her family is on the toughest journey they will ever make.