Communities in action
Around Australia, individuals, groups, businesses and alliances are making their communities more dementia-friendly. By working with people living with dementia, their families and carers, we can all create a more inclusive community.
See how community action can help people living with dementia stay connected.
Photo: Facilitators, Clare Drew and Zelka Popovic with participants at the Westmead Hospital pilot workshop
A new education package has been released that aims to improve the care of people living with dementia in hospital and Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) settings.
On the 18th of June, 30 participants attended a workshop focussing on being a Dementia-friendly Community held by Dementia Australia. The participants included Westfield security, cleaning and management team members.
When conductor Brian Triglone set up Canberra’s first dementia-friendly choir in 2016 he never imagined the positive impact it would also have on carers.
Now two years on, the 72-year-old retiree and Alchemy Chorus founder hopes to set up a network of similar choirs around Australia.
Three soups were on the menu on July 2 to raise money for a dementia-friendly garden. Customers enjoyed Thai pumpkin, pea and ham, and tomato soup with bread rolls at a pop-up soup cafe at the Port Macquarie CWA Rooms.
Through practical collaboration between students and industry, Team UOW in the Solar Decathlon 2018 endeavour to change the way the world views sustainable housing by building a home that is architecturally inspiring, affordable and adaptive to a person’s needs as they continue to age, creating “
Greengate retirement and aged care villages understand that a Dementia-friendly community will help people who live with dementia feel included and supported in the places they work, live and play.
Pictured; Lisa and Jessica Origliasso of The Veronicas were named Dementia Australia’s newest ambassadors at an event at Parliament House in Canberra this week. With them is fellow ambassador Ita Buttrose.
Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt AM has called on Members of Parliament across Australia to join Dementia Friends, a social movement aiming to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about dementia.
Individuals, businesses and community groups interested in creating a more dementia friendly community on the Central Coast can attend a free workshop in June.
Photo of Jenni with Karen Harborow in front of a collaborative piece painted by five to six artists from the day centre in Brunswick Heads, all who are living with dementia. Photo Aslan Shand.
Amanda Bryce is a Perth pharmacist and community pharmacy owner of 20 years, who has championed a dementia friendly initiative at her pharmacy in Bicton, Perth resulting in being awarded as Australia's Pharmacy of the Year for Professional Innovation at APP2018.
Members of the Ballarat community living with dementia will soon be able to see, smell, touch and hear nature all thanks to a nationally supported local community initiative dedicated to creating the states, and maybe the nations, first Dementia Friendly Sensory Walk.