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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Reprinted from “The Conversation” under creative Commons
For Australians to have the choice of growing old at home, here is what needs to change
When an ageing person is forced to move out of their family home, that can trigger a host of problems that policy is doing little to prevent.…
The following is “practice” presentation for the UOW Solar Decathlon- Desert Rose project to be given as part of their Dementia Awareness program.
The presentation can be viewed here in a searchable – chaptered format.
In this presentation I briefly cover the impact Dementia has on my sensory perception,
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The following article is reprinted (under creative commons) from “The Conversation” August 4th, 2017.
One might be inspired to ask “Who Watches the Watchers?” or “Who Believes the Believers?”
I reject your reality and substitute my own! (from a 1974 episode of Doctor Who entitled The Deadly Assassin.
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The following article is reproduced from “The Conversation” July 24th 2017
Three visual illusions that reveal the hidden workings of the brain
Visual illusions can tell us a lot about how our brain interprets the world.
Mbellaccini, CC BY-SA
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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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Dementia Australia’s First and Alzheimer’s Australia’s last National Conference “Be The Change” begins in Melbourne today (17th October 2017).
The following is a link to my poster presentation on Developing Dementia Friendly Communities, giving my overview of the Dementia Friendly Kiama project.
Developing Dementia Friendly Communities
On Wednesday morning I will also be presenting “
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The Building A Dementia Friendly World symposium was held last week, co-organised by Alzheimer’s Society and the WHO Kobe Centre as part of the ADI2017 conference in Kyoto. This was one of several pre-conference symposia and a chance to see a broad global representation of Dementia Friendly initiatives.
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There’s no need to lock older people into nursing homes ‘for their own safety’
Allowing nursing home residents to come and go as they wish may not be so dangerous after all.
from www.shutterstock.com
Marta Woolford, Monash University and Joseph Ibrahim,
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People with blood type AB more at risk of cognitive decline and dementia
Don’t bank on it.
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Kristine Alexander, University of Vermont
As the number of elderly people increases, so do concerns about cognitive impairment and dementia.
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