Dementia Friendly Kiama
Dementia Awareness Workshop
- Our next Dementia Awareness workshop will be held on Friday 27th July 2018 at the Gerroa Fisherman’s Club, beginning at 10 am and going though to 1 pm.
- Do you want to know more about dementia?
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Blog Archives
Dementia Awareness Day
Support Groups
Reprinted from the Conversation 09/07/2018
How support groups can boost your health and make chronic conditions easier to live with
Peer support groups don’t cost much, and thousands of Australians find them useful.
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Ben Harris, Victoria University and Wai-Kwan Chislett,
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Parliamentary Friends of Dementia
Recently I was asked to address the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Dementia. What follows is the main content of my address.
Before I begin, I ask your indulgence. If my words seem confused or I stumble, its my Semantic Frontotemporal Dementia re-editing the wiki that is my internal lexicon.
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Living and Aging in Place
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.…
Drug Treatments Failure
From todays “Conversation”
Why a drug treatment for dementia has eluded us
Have our hopes of a drug treatment for dementia been dashed by drug company Pfizer giving up on research efforts?
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Jürgen Götz, The University of Queensland
Finding a cure for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is challenging.
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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
Visual illusions can tell us a lot about how our brain interprets the world.
Mbellaccini, CC BY-SA
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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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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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