We invite you to register now for DAI's "A Meeting Of The Minds" Webinar, July 24/25, 2019, with presenter and DAI Board member, Christine Thelker from Canada.
Please note: this is one event, set in a number of different time zones.
About the Webinar: DAI recently held a Side Event at the 12th Session of the Conference Of State Parties (COSP) on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This webinar will highlight the event, focusing on why dementia must be managed as a disability and why people with dementia are rights bearers as all others, such as universal heath care including rehabilitation. The panel included a group of eminent speakers, and was a rich discussion on dementia as a disability, on people with dementia as rights bearers, and of the rights of all, including people with dementia to rehabilitation and other services, and to full and equal access to the CRPD
The overarching theme was social inclusion and health, two determinants of well-being, both of which are being systematically denied to people with dementia all around the world. Dementia had never been represented formally in a Side Event ever before at the COSP, hence why DAI felt it was so important.
Our disabilities may be more invisible than many others, but we are still, even in 2019, being stigmatised and discriminated against on a daily basis, and we hope this event will be the start of change for the more than 50 million people currently living with dementia, and every person being newly diagnosed every 3.2 seconds.
As an organisation DAI continues to work towards others joining our campaign that dementia is a condition causing acquired cognitive and other disabilities, and for full and equal access to the CRPD and other Conventions, so that no one is left behind, including people with dementia. Rehabilitation, and all other health and disability services and support are essential for maintaining independence and dignity, for longer, and whilst dementia is a terminal condition, we should not all be ‘dying at diagnosis’.
About our speaker: Christine Thelker, a current board member of DAI, is from Vernon, British Columbia, Canada and at 59 says, her sense of humour has grown, since her diagnosis of dementia. She is a Board member of Dementia Alliance International, and previously worked for the Interior Health Authority for 13 years in various sites, including in dementia care and of life care. She advocates for families and patients and for better training for workers in dementia care. She also advocated for better working environments for the employees. Christine designed and taught a program to nursing students at the local colleges on end of life care and dementia care, and designed a program on unattended sorrow, which was in relation to all the deaths workers saw and the cumulative effects. She believes it has many similar effects on people diagnosed with dementia and doing more work around that. Widowed at 47 and then diagnosed with Vascular dementia at 56, Christine is still advocating, using her voice to help others. She loves working with Dementia Alliance International (DAI) and believes whole-heartedly that it helps keep her living well with her dementia. Her motto since being diagnosed is “I’m not done yet”.
Register here...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 (USA/CA/UK/EU):
- 11:30 am Honolulu
- 2:30 pm Pacific
- 3:30 pm Mountain
- 4:30 pm Central
- 5:30 pm Eastern
- 10:30 pm London/Glasgow/Dublin UK
- 11:30 pm Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, EU
Thursday, July 25, 2019 (AU/NZ/JP/SGP/TWN/CHN):
- 7:00 am Adelaide AU
- 7:30 am Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra/Tasmania AU
- 5:30 am Perth AU/Taipei//Beijing
- 9:30 am Auckland, NZ
The Webinar runs for 1.5 hours. Check your time if not listed above by using this link:
COST TO ATTEND:
- DAI Members/Care partners: FREE
- Employed people: DONATIONS APPRECIATED
- Full time Students: DONATIONS APPRECIATED