New Blood Test Can Detect Alzheimer's Disease with High Accuracy

Google Rating

5.0

Oxley Home Care

5.0

Based on 14 reviews

Annie Grainger

04:57 25 Oct 19

Recently Oxley Home Care commenced providing home care personal services for my father. The Senior Care Coordinator was very prompt in coming to visit my father and in organising support within a week of my phone call enquiry. She has been very friendly and helpful, and keen to ensure that the Care Worker is a good match for my father. We appreciated her phone call following up after the Care Worker's first visit to check that Dad was happy and that his needs were being met. Dad is indeed very happy with the support of his Care Worker - "She is a delightful young lady with a personality that brightens up my day. She comes for one hour five mornings a week, and is meticulous in carrying out the allocated tasks. She is efficient and uses her initiative." Many thanks Oxley Home Care! Margaret Grainger

Anthony Rich

23:36 18 Sep 19

Oxley Home Care are real professionals, and I was lucky to find them. They followed up promptly on my initial call, and always stayed in contact. They went out of their way to help me get started with a care worker, who was always prompt and supportive. I can highly recommend them !

Bec Jamieson

05:20 06 Sep 19

Supportive and caring organisation with clients best interests at heart. A truly wonderful place to work

Emma Clyant

02:59 06 Sep 19

Such a supportive and caring organisation to work for

Karen Kaye-Smith

00:37 02 Jul 19

I do not know what I would do without Oxley Home Care. From Management/Office staff to Carer's, the service is exceptional. The level of service and the interaction of Carer's with my parents is just amazing. Absolutely exceptional. At times I have needed adhoc services urgently and Oxley Office staff has organised this with ease for me. I cannot praise Oxley Home Care enough. I know they have my parents needs and wellbeing a priority. I do not hesitate in recommending Oxley Home Care .

SOFIA KATSIARIS

07:16 17 Dec 18

I have been very fortunate to find a provider like the Oxley Home Care team. From senior management to Regional care Manager, to all the lovely ladies in the office and all the care workers that have assisted in helping me take care of my mother at home, I have found them to be very professional in all aspects of there work. They have been very understanding and caring and very compassionate , always willing to do above and beyond in assisting me to take care of my mother and giving me and my family the moral support to continue to do so. I highly recommend Oxley Home Care to anyone who is in need of any type of care for themselves or for there loved ones or even for a friend. You will not be disappointed. Thank you so much Oxley Home care Team. You are amazing. Please continue the terrific work of always helping others. Thank you again. Sr. Sofia.

Next Reviews

A+ / A-

Talk to a home care expert

1300 230 369

New blood test detects Alzheimer’s Disease with 90 per cent accuracy

By Gilian Douglass
February 2, 2018
no comments
Dementia

Scientists from Australia and Japan have developed the world’s first accurate blood test for Alzheimer’s Disease that can detect the presence of the disease up to 30 years prior to symptoms showing.

The blood test measures the build-up of the protein amyloid-beta, which is one of the first signs of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Blood samples from patients in a large study from the Japanese National Center for Geriatics and Gerontology (NCGG) were analysed to identify the protein amyloid-beta. Those blood samples with beta-amyloid were then tested over more than a decade against patient samples from the Australian Imaging, Biomarker and Lifestyle Study of Aging (AIBL), to validate the results.

The performance of the blood test is so good that it has accuracy of about 90 per cent and could be used to screen people for clinical trials.

It is a remarkable discovery, as the process of Alzheimer’s Disease commences silently approximately 30 years prior to outward signs of dementia, including memory loss or cognitive decline, showing.

Professor Colin Masters from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health co-led the research. He said: “It (the blood test) will be an invaluable tool in increasing the speed of screening potential patients for new drug trials.”

Professor Masters added that the blood test will make diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease easier, cheaper and more readily available than the current invasive and expensive options of scanning patients and undertaking spinal fluid lumbar punctures.

Importantly, if the blood test is negative, there is a 95 per cent chance that you’re not going to develop Alzheimer’s Disease in the next 10 to 15 years.

Read more – The top early warning signs of dementia

Professor Colin Masters added that progress in developing new therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease has been slow. None of the drugs currently on the market treat the underlying disease and new drugs are urgently required, with a rigorous patient selection.

The results of the study were published in the Nature journal.

You may also find these blogs informative…

About Oxley Home Care:

Oxley Home Care offers tailored, early intervention and health and lifestyle coaching to people with dementia. Each person assisted is treated as an individual with their own history, memories and likes/dislikes taken into consideration, with services offered from early onset dementia through to palliative dementia care.

Oxley Home Care’s support services for people with dementia and their carers include:

Personal care, showering, dressing, grooming, dental hygiene and denture care
Activities to assist and minimise behaviours
Preparing and serving of meals
Daily living support, including domestic assistance
Transport to social events
Shopping and errands
Companionship and leisure activities

In addition, Oxley Home Care’s respite support allows carers to rest and re-energise with peace of mind, on a regular basis.

To find out more about getting the right support and care for a family member with dementia, contact Oxley Home Care on 1300 993 591.

Testimonials from our valued clients.

My Care Worker, Karin, is so efficient, capable and caring. She has proved to be intelligent, reliable, conscientious and her integrity is undoubted. She has been a huge factor in my living in my own home with all my health problems.
Her assistance in so many ways has contributed greatly to me achieving this and hopefully will continue for some time to come. I am very lucky to have the assistance of such a capable and understanding Care Worker from Oxley Home Care.

Brian, Wahroonga

Testimonials from our valued clients.

Our experience with Oxley is seamless, friendly, pro-active and extremely supportive. We would like to make special mention of their speedy response times when adhoc requests for care services are made. As shift workers this service is invaluable and Ashley goes above and beyond in these communications and interactions with us.
Anna has been amazing offering advice and is open minded to trialling and sourcing new devices to assist us.
Maria is an exceptional carer who does more than required and was able to make a quick connection and friendship with our mother.
Thank you team!

Anna, Parramatta

Testimonials from our valued clients.

To all the team at Oxley, I cannot thank you enough for all the help, kindness, patience, and support you have given my Mother over the past year. Mum speaks so highly of you all and my life has been made so much easier because of you. Keep up the good work.

Gail, Turramurra