Westpac 'Let's Talk About Dementia' Symposium Programme 2022

 

Thursday 22 September 2022

Te Papa, Wellington

8.30am Registration desk opens, tea & coffee available

 

Mihi, Housekeeping & Into to the day

Judith Fyfe

 

Lived Experience:

Getting it Right - the challenge of respite

 

Jan Pearson - Carer

 

Innovation:

Home4All - Day activity programme

 

Marian and Jan Weststrate - Home4All

 

Innovation:

Recognising and responding to early signs of cognitive impairment/dementia in Primary Care

 

Emma Fromings & Dionne Delacey

- Tawa Medical Practice

 

Focus: Pacifica

Vaka Atafaga Pacific Nursing Service

 

Margaret Southwick RGON PhD - Clinical Team Leader Vaka Atafaga Pacific Nursing Service

 

Sponsor's Spot

Sandra Henderson - Regional Manager, Westpac

 

Morning Tea

 

Research:

Research into mate wareware (dementia) and Māori - and overview

- MANA tool

- Mate wareware app

 

Dr Makarena Dudley, School of Pyschology, University of Auckland

 

Lived Experience and Innovation:

Sharing the Care in Aged Residential Care

Kristen Phillips - Kristen supported her father while he was living in a dementia special care unit

 

Reflection: Managing Covid

Balancing the needs of people with dementia and the Covid restrictions

 

Shelley Kennedy - Dementia Knowledge Specialist, Summerset

 

Innovation:

MinDarT: Material and drawing for people with dementia and their supporters in 2022

 

Emma Febvre-Richards - Senior Lecturer, Massey University

 

Lunch

 

Afternoon Session Starts

Judith Fyfe

 

Lived Experience:

Let's talk about Dementia!

 

Sue Piper - Carer

 

Research: Pacifica

Metaphorically speaking - Dementia and Pacific Peoples

 

Dr Vanda Symon - Va'a o Tautai - Centre for Pacific Health, University of Otago

 

Research:

Lifestyle interventions to maintain Brain Health

 

Dr Lynette Tippet - Centre for Brain Research and School of Psychology, University of Auckland

 

Dementia in the new health system

 

 

Wrap Up

Anne Schumacher - CE, Dementia Wellington

 

3.00pm Symposium Ends