DAI is proud to support Alzheimer's New Zealand today by promoting their upcoming biannual conference.
Alzheimer's New Zealand is a member of our strategic partner, Alzheimer's Disease International.
Although DAI is regularly asked to promote conferences, if we did this for every dementia related conference in the world, our site would be transformed from one for people with dementia (our members), into a global confernce program, so instead, we limit this to ADI members only, as requested.
DAI also heavily promotes the attendance of members and their care partners to attend ADI and ADI member conferences, and does quite lot of fundraising to support attendance. It is wondeful that Alzhemer's New Zealand have found a sponsor the the second time so that registration for peoplewith dementia and thei care parter is free again.
Alzheimer's Scotland managed to do this for their conference this year as well, an important step to ensuring equal and full inclusion of peoiple with dementia, most who are no longer working due to the disease, or the stigma and discrimiantion dementia brings with it.
We ask that you please consider attending this very important conference, which is only held every two years.
'Tackling Dementia - It's Everybody's Business' is the premier conference focused on dementia in New Zealand.
The Conference is an opportunity to engage in a multi-sector conversation on how services for people with dementia can be transformed to reflect a world of more choice, flexibility and quick access to support; and to harness the best insights and knowledge from a range of sectors that can all help New Zealand meet the dementia challenge.
Abstracts are up to 250 words in length and if accepted, will be followed up with an oral presentation at this exciting conference.
Submissions close on Friday 22nd June 2018, and acceptance/non-acceptance will be advised by Monday 9th July 2018.
Abstract themes
We invite abstracts reflecting the programme themes:
- Peer services - people living with dementia supporting themselves and each other
Includes services delivered by and for people living with dementia - Citizenship and rights for people with dementia
Includes dementia friendly programmes, services and standards, the review of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and supported decision making - Effectiveness - the evidence for the right things to do
Includes therapeutic interventions, the role of service navigation, the lived experience of dementia, biomedical developments and delivery models - Innovations - from the margins to the centre: New ideas and thinking
Includes anything and everything that has the potential to transform the way we experience dementia
One of our blogs from 2015 provides guidelines on attending conferences, especially on how to write and submit an abstract, which you can read here...
If you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us by email.