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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In preparation for our next public Dementia Awareness Presentations At Gerringong Bowling Club we have updated and prepared some short videos on our sensory problems.
Sense of Smell (You smell – we all smell!)
Making Sense so far (Food and Flavour)
For the full story- come along and join in the presentation.
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Saturday 8th Sept saw the now annual Bondi-2-Berry bike ride. This year saw over 80 riders undertake the 155km ride. The stop over in Kiama was hosted at Hindmarsh park this year, and despite overcast sky’s the much needed rain held off.
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For the last 6 weeks, 4 young women from Kiama High School have been working on a short film project designed to highlight the issue of Dementia and to help raise awareness and understanding of the disease, especially among other young people. The young women have worked closely with the Kiama Dementia Advisory Group,
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Dementia Awareness Presentation
On Friday 27th July 2018 the Kiama Dementia Friendly Community project hosted the first of what we hope will be many Dementia Awareness presentations, designed, developed and delivered by the Dementia Advisory Group. or DAGs. Below are the links to “studio” recordings of the four presentations. They are presented here as a refresher for those present and as a public resource in general.
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Dementia Friendly Kiama
Dementia Awareness Workshop
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Recently we had the pleasure of presenting the overview of our Dementia Friendly Kiama project at a conference -“Walk In My Shoes – Carers Conference” on the central coast. The highlight was participating in a forum aimed at initiating a Dementia Friendly central coast.
Following is a link to a web based reproduction of the presentation.
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Friday December 1st saw the Celebration of three years of the Dementia Friendly Kiama project as well as celebrating the International Day of People with Disability.
Dementia advocates lead disability celebrations
eading dementia advocates and campaigners Sue Pieters-Hawke and Kate Swaffer are
leading local celebrations of International Day of People with Disability (Sunday 3
December).
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Join us in Celebrating Community Success by acknowledging:
International day of people with disability, and the success of our internationally awarded Dementia-friendly Kiama Project.
Its now three years since we first formally met and the broad community began to be involved in this project. In these brief three years we have seen some major changes globally and we have not only been part of these changes,
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