
Dementia Care in rural and remote Australia
Dementia Care in rural and remote Australia
Inside this issue
Extending dementia care into Indigenous communities
Lack of dementia services may contribute to retrievals
Subscriber only content
Project updates and viewpoints
Dementia-inclusive theatre
Althea Gordon and Tina Firth report on the results and lessons learnt from an innovative arts project in which aged care residents living with dementia participated in eight performances held in their aged care home, in front of audiences of carers, families and the wider community
New beginnings: design to support engagement
Samantha Neylon and Ruth Payne describe the process of transforming a former convent building into a purpose-built dementia-friendly care home supporting a Montessori approach to dementia care
Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice
Reimagining Dementia is an international group of dementia activists and allies who share a vision that challenges biomedical and institutional approaches to care. Coalition Coordinator Mary Fridley explains
Dancing through lockdown
Gwen Korebrits explains how Dance Health Alliance has enabled people living with dementia to keep active and dancing throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns
Rural & remote dementia care
A rights-based approach to dementia-inclusive public spaces
People living with dementia and their carers in rural and regional areas face particular challenges around loneliness and isolation, heightened by a lack of access to dementia-inclusive outdoor and public spaces. Carmela Leone, Rachel Winterton and Irene Blackberry are undertaking a study in rural and regional Victoria exploring the rights of people with dementia and carers
AJDC Journal Club at work
Transitional Nurse Practitioner Sandy Everson, from the Mid North Coast Local Health District in NSW, explains how she uses the AJDC to facilitate a Journal Club with her team
KT shapes new environments resources
DTA Environments Team Service Manager Fallon Forbes shares how Knowledge Translation (KT) principles helped inform her team’s response to meeting the education and training needs of the dementia care workforce, especially those in regional, rural and remote Australia – in the year of a pandemic
Rethinking rural dementia care
Marita Chisholm, Kaye Knight, Catherine Ramsdale, Jo Martin and Wendy James describe how a big effort by their small Victorian health service to do things differently during two COVID-19 lockdowns helped people with dementia living in the community and residential aged care
Community links key to pandemic support
Andrew Haszard explains how Dementia Support Australia and its team of Dementia Consultants have supported people with dementia and care services in rural and remote areas of Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the specific challenges faced by people in those communities
Research Focus
Training dental practitioners in dementia and aged care
Archana Pradhan and Ratilal Lalloo evaluated an Australian-first online learning program for dentists on providing oral health care for people with dementia
Plus the latest dementia research news, resources and events.
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