Day 1
Keynote Address
Dementia Drugs - Mainstream & Alternative Medicines
Susan Kurrle
Is there a pre-dementia syndrome? Is Mild Cognitive Impairment a Myth?
Henry Brodaty
Education
Promoting an Understanding of Dementia For Staff who Deal with the Public 'Over the Counter'
Chris Shanley
Acute Care
Dementia & Delirium - The Unrecognised Connection
Julia L. Poole
Home is where the heart is : The challenges of discharge planning with people who have dementia
Zoe Ellis & Rachel Wilson
Respite Care
Respite Care in the 21st Century
Judith Hick
Positive Solutions to the Challenges of Residential Respite
Alexandra Lara
Community Care
GPs Caring for People with Dementia & their Carers
Charles Bridges-Webb
Strategies & Supports
Thoughts on Music Therapy
Ruth Bright
Life Enhancing Technology
Tim Wallace
Assessment tools
Memory Clinics on the Far North Coast of NSW
Kathryn Pigott
Opening Our Eyes to Depression & Dementia
Leonie Young
Medical Matters
Hereditary Dementia in Australian Families: Could there be a Protective Gene?
William Brooks, Olivier Piguet, Hayley Bennett & G Anthony Broe
Mapping Dementia
Memory Rehabilitation in Early Dementia
Diana Golvers
Residential Care - Special Needs
Quality Care for People with Down Syndrome & Dementia
Dianne Winters
A Proactive Response to Changing Cohort of Dementia Care Residents
Jennifer Perkins
Do Residents with Dementia have the Right to Live Amid Cognitively Intact People?
Deidre Moran
Facilitated Workshop
Policy Workshop for Carers
This report summarises the outcomes of the two consumer workshops which were held separately for people with dementia and family carers.
Day 2
Does the Living with Memory Loss Program Work? Results of the National Evaluation
Mark Bird
Ethics - Carers & Families
The Family Agreement - A Collision between love and the law?
Brian Herd
When the Caring Journey Ends: Supporting Carers Searching for New Paths
Anne Sammut
Ethical issues
Dementia and Palliative Care - Practical and Ethical Considerations
Jennifer Abbey
Early Dementia
Dementia: Not Only a Condition for the Elderly
Lynn Mather
Beyond Respite Care - Support Services that Enhance Life
Brian Corley
Living with Dementia not Dying from It
Shirley Garnett
Workshop
Health Benefits of Laughter & Humour
Anthony Ackroyd
Issues for culturally & linguistically diverse communities
Kalimera - Host Home Respite for Greek People Living with Dementia
Sue Leake
Rural Issues
Dementia - Positive Solutions in Acute Care
Priscilla Taylor
Day 3
Address by the Minister for Ageing
The Hon. Julie Bishop MP
Alternative Approaches
Music Therapy: Empowering People Living with Alzheimer's Disease
Cameron Haigh & Alison Ledger
Music Therapy: Empowering people with Alzheimer's Disease
Cameron Haigh
Care partnerships & Community approaches
Who are you? Responses to Behavioural Changes
Robin Wirth
Care Partners - Towards a New Paradigm of Care
Paul Bryden
Responding to special needs
Care 4U Program
Barbara Caroll
Dementia & Disability
Lewis Kaplan
Workshop
Future Directions
Glenn Rees, National Executive Director
Poster Presentations
Delirium Management in 3 Steps
Eesa Witt