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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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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The following is a link to the essence of a presentation given at the University of Wollongong Innovation Campus for the Desert Rose project. It aims to give an overview of my perspective of dementia and covers some of the strategies I have employed to cope.
My Strategies This link is to a high resolution video.
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Reframing The Rhetoric Around Dementia
The following is a link the a presentation prepared for the 2017 Dementia Australia Conference. Reframing The Rhetoric Around Dementia (2017)
The better use and more considered use of language around Dementia can help reduce many of the stigmas around dementia.
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