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The Truths Out There or In Here?

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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Illusions

The following article is reproduced from “The Conversation” July 24th 2017

Three visual illusions that reveal the hidden workings of the brain
File 20170720 24021 125ayhj.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1Visual illusions can tell us a lot about how our brain interprets the world.
Mbellaccini, CC BY-SA

Kim Ransley,

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Geetings

Its that time of year. Yesterday it was October- Tomorrow its Christmas.

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Walk In My Shoes

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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Disabilty Celebration

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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Celebration

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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December Social Event

Join the DAGs in Celebrating our Community Success by joining us on the Kiama Coastal Walk.

When: On Saturday 2nd December at 9:45 am

Where: Kiama Station

The Plan: We will begin our trek from Kiama Station,

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Be The Change

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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October Picnic

Our next social get-together will be on Tuesday 1oth of October at 10:30, in Currarong.

We will meet at the park at the end of Piscator Ave. There is shelter and a nearby shop for the desperate. Weather permitting and people willing we may walk out to view the wreck of the Merimbula.

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September Picnic

Our Next Get-Together

When: Tuesday … at 10:30 – 12th Sept
Where: Minnamurra Falls (Budderoo National Park)
Meet . Near the Visitors Centre. Note there is a $12.00 park entry fee and part of the Park is closed for maintenance.

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