14th National Dementia Conference
Event Details
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Event Series External event
Location OnlineIn-person
Two-day conference addressing the critical issues in dementia research, treatment and care in Australia with a host of leading experts.
The 14th Annual National Dementia Conference discusses best-practice strategies and initiatives for improving quality person-centred care across multiple settings, and also details the latest research, therapies, treatments, innovation and technologies from around the world.
Key topics
- Quality dementia care: what it looks like, how we get there and how we measure it
- Living with Younger Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
- Developing a new National Dementia Action Plan
- Creating tools for co-design with consumers
- Diagnosis and management of dementia
- Pathways and access to information, services, and support
- Developing benchmarks
- Dementia-friendly design
- Workforce education and training
- Wellbeing & assistive technology
- Discrimination and human rights for people living with dementia
- Implementing change based on the Royal Commission
- Palliative care & advanced care planning
- Preventing negligence
- Preventing elder abuse: a community focused approach