Get involved
Whether you’re looking to donate money, volunteer your time, raise vital funds or partner with us, your support for Dementia Australia will have a significant impact on quality of life for people impacted by dementia, and for their families and carers.
Dementia Action Week
21-27 September
Dementia is Australia’s leading cause of death, but it’s not talked about nearly enough. This Dementia Action Week, we’re asking every Australian to help change that, one conversation at a time.
Get Active
Ready to hit the pavement? Take part in one of the many exciting fitness events happening across the country and choose Dementia Australia as your charity. Challenge yourself, inspire your community, and be part of the movement towards a future where no one faces dementia alone.
- Community Education Toolkit
Dementia Australia’s free, interactive video toolkit designed for community groups interested in learning about brain health and dementia.
- Dementia Australia Diversity Small Grants
Dementia Australia diversity small grant applications 2026 have closed.
- Dementia advocacy and the 48th federal Parliament
Here’s how you can help advocate for dementia and brain health with the 48th parliament.
- Dementia Action Week
Dementia Action Week is a major leadership, awareness and advocacy campaign led by Dementia Australia as the peak body for people living with dementia, their families and carers.
- In your community
Grants, tools, information and groups to help you work alongside people living with dementia and make a difference where you live.
- Dementia-Friendly Communities
You can help make your community more dementia inclusive by collaborating with people living with dementia to create spaces that understand, support and empower them.
- Fundraising together for dementia
Whether you hike, bike, run, cook, play, create, or celebrate, however you choose to fundraise for Dementia Australia, it will make a difference.
- Volunteer opportunities with Dementia Australia
Join Dementia Australia as a volunteer! Explore event-based, long-term opportunities in capital cities and regional locations.
- Events
Dementia information and education sessions and dementia-related events happening across Australia and online. Find one near you.
- Dementia Advocates Program
The Dementia Advocates Program is for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment, carers and former carers who want to raise awareness, fight stigma and influence decision-makers.
- Become a Peer Leader
Connecting Peers, our one-to-one peer support program, connects you with someone who might benefit from the support of someone with a similar experience.
- Stronger Research, Together: advocacy in dementia research
If you have living experience of dementia, you can help ensure dementia research is relevant, respectful and focused on outcomes that truly matter. Here’s how.
- Partner with us
Create a partnership that helps your organisation express what’s truly important to it — and to its employees.
- Memory Lane Cafes
Memory Lane Cafes are social groups that connect you and your carer with other people in your community living with dementia at cafe-style get-togethers.
