Dementia is the leading cause of death in Australia. Over 433,300 Australians are living with dementia and an estimated 1.7 million people are involved in caring for someone with dementia. Dementia doesn’t discriminate. This year around 29,000 Australians are estimated to be living with younger-onset dementia, including people in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

Tully Smyth lost her mum to younger-onset dementia in 2019 and now Tully is an ambassador for Dementia Australia.

In this very important episode, we speak with Tully about her mum. Tully shares about her memories with her mum before her diagnosis, the small things Tully and her family started to notice in her mum’s behaviour, and slowly losing her mum over 17 years. Plus Tully shares about her own risk of developing dementia, how that risk changes the way she lives and thinks about her future with her partner, Ned.

FIND OUT MORE

You can find our more about dementia via the Dementia Australia website https://www.dementia.org.au/

Dementia Australia has a 24/7 helpline. Call 1800 100 500

Follow Tully on Instagram @tee_smyth

Listen to Tully’s podcast Self Help(ed) https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/self-help-ed/id1832706603

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This week Steph checks in about her ADHD, including what she’s struggling with at home, and seeing a psychiatrist about medication.

Then - we discuss a recent journal article that “strongly discouraged” using the AMH test to predict a woman’s fertility. Laura shares about her experience getting an AHM test herself, and we look back at a conversation Laura had for the Do I Want Kids miniseries, where she spoke with Dr Karin Hammarberg, a Senior Research Fellow in the Monash University School of Public Health, about the notion that women’s fertility falls off a cliff at 35.

SPECIAL SHARES

• Steph: the Annie musical https://anniemusical.com.au/tickets/melbourne/
• Laura: not getting caught up in the hype of a movie without watching the trailer!
• Laura: The Naked Gun (an anti Special Share!)

Kic UPDATE

Enrolments for the next Kicrun Challenge open today!!!!

From mindfulness to making friends - whatever your reason, run your way with the Kicrun 8 Week Challenge.

With New Balance, join us and run towards your goal of 3, 5, 10 or 21km with our guided Kicrun programs in the app.

The challenge starts September 22nd.

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Madeleine Edwards is a skincare creator, beauty therapist and first-time mum to baby Carmine.

In this week’s KICBUMP, Madeline sits down with Steph to talk through her pregnancy, birth story and the complications that resulted from her episiotomy.

Maddie also shares about how her relationship to her body has changed due to the post-birth complications she experienced and how pregnancy, birth & having a baby girl is shifting her body image.

Plus! Living at home with her mum, three sisters, partner and baby under one roof and why it’s the best thing for them.

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