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It kills almost as many Australian children as cancer

Published 22 September 2022, 10:18 am
It’s a disease that kills almost as many Australian children as cancer. Yet childhood dementia is virtually unknown. As part of Dementia Action Week, a national initiative is hoping to raise awareness of the condition which currently affects some 700,000 children around the world.
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