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

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 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

Gwen Korebrits explains how Dance Health Alliance has enabled people living with dementia to keep active and dancing throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns

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

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

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

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

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

Archana Pradhan and Ratilal Lalloo evaluated an Australian-first online learning program for dentists on providing oral health care for people with dementia