Becoming Dementia Aware
Steps Toward Becoming a Dementia Friend
(Short Notes to accompany our Full Dementia Awareness Presentations. A Paper copy can be downloaded by clicking here, and to request a full ‘half-day’ live presentation tailored to your needs please see the contact us section at the end.)
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Register for our next
Community Dementia Education Awareness session.
This will be held in the new Matterson Hall – Blue Haven Bonaira
To register phone Nick Guggisberg or Michael Preston on 02 4232 0444
or email council@Kiama.nsw.gov.au
For more detail see the following document.
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Following are links to video recordings of our Public Dementia Awareness presentations.
These presentations are from our lived experience and are not third party clinical overviews. To the best of our knowledge this lived experience perspective is unique in that these presentations are probably the first such that have been authored by,
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The annual Australian Dementia Forum occurred in Hobart on Thursday 13th June and Friday 14th June, with several round table discussions and side events occurring on Wednesday 12th June.
The forum is an annual event held by NHMRC NIDR which is an ‘economical’ way of saying ‘the Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Dementia Research.
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This resource is designed to assess venues and business premises to help make them more dementia assessable. This work is based on the E.A.T (Environmental Assessment Tool) available from Dementia Training Australia
The resource is in two parts – an assessment guide providing background knowledge and ideas of how you may implement as successful assessment of a venue and a separate workbook you can use to carry out the assessment.
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The following is a ‘practice’ run of a presentation (to be) given at the Uni Bar – The University of Wollongong on May 28th.
I was proud to be invited to do this presentation, but doubly so because my oldest son was able to attend.
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This is a flip book of Changes and Challenges.
It is best viewed full screen (click the [ ] icon bottom right hand corner).
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Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
Visually expressing painful memories and feelings can help let things go.
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Joanna Jaaniste, Western Sydney University
People with dementia can flourish and show creativity in ways they,
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Our April picnic will be held on Thursday 11th April at Apex Park in Berry. We plan to meet around 11:00 am and will probably have lunch across the street at the Leaf or where ever the consensus of opinion takes us.
Apex park – on the north end of Berry – almost opposite the Bowling Club
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