Blog Archives

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 “

Read more ›

Posted in Events, Inclusive Communities, Kiama Project, News, Resources


Dementia Village

ABC reports Tasmania builds a village for people with dementia.

Like

Like
Love
Haha
Wow
Sad
Angry

Read more ›

Posted in News


ABC Article

Interesting insight from the ABC. It’s always good to see main stream media coming on board.

Like

Like
Love
Haha
Wow
Sad
Angry

Read more ›

Posted in News


The Good Ship Titanic

News from Melbourne. After day one of the Dementia Reform Funding Innovation Conference   we have reason to be optermistic. The good ship Dementia Care is showing signs of changing coarse. It appears to be heading to warmer friendlier climates. It still has a long way to go. We may not live long enougth to realise all the benefits,

Read more ›

Posted in Events, Inclusive Communities, News


June Picnic

Our next social get-together event will occur on Tuesday the 6th of June at 10:30 am.

We will meet at the park in Gerroa on Park Rd.

Bring Coffee – Bring Cake – but most importantly – Bring Yourself.

Hopefully the good weather has been booked,

Read more ›

Posted in Events, News


Building A Dementia Friendly World, Kyoto 2017

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.

Read more ›

Posted in Inclusive Communities, Kiama Project, News, Our Stories, Resources


May Meeting

The next meeting of the Advisory Group will take place this coming Thursday May 4th at the Quiet Café in Gerringong. We will meet at 10:30. The café is near the old Town Hall and just of the main street.

If anyone is lost or cant find the venue give me a call on 0419417601 and I’ll guide you in.

Read more ›

Posted in Events, News


One Brick At a Time

ADI2017 Symposium:Building A Dementia-Friendly World.

This symposium occurs today 26th April at 13:30 (Japan time) in Kyoto. It is a precursor to the 32nd International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI).

The following as a presentation given by Dennis Frost briefly outlining the Dementia Friendly Kiama Project. Click on the link below to view the presentation.

Read more ›

Posted in Inclusive Communities, Kiama Project, News


Dementia Awareness Education Day

Dementia Friendly Kiama: March 21st

Want to know more about dementia?

Want to know what you can do to support a friend, colleague or neighbour who has dementia?

Want to know how you can help make Kiama a World Leading Dementia Friendly Community?

Read more ›

Posted in Events, Inclusive Communities, Kiama Project, News
Tags:

To Fight Or Not To Fight

We are constantly presented #1 with sensationalist representations of dementia. We are presented with words and phrases such as the following

  • Battling Dementia #2
  • A Dementia Tsunami #3
  • Suffering with Dementia #4

The language being used to report on Dementia is the same sensational language used to report on war.

Read more ›

Posted in News, Our Stories, Quite Interesting, Resources


Recent Comments

Events Update

-->

Events

Upcoming events