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Have a story, opportunity, innovation or challenge to share that doesn’t fit in the topic selection? We still want to hear from you.

Share with us what you are doing and how this shapes, informs or challenges the dementia care landscape now and into the future. Be brave. Be bold.

Topics may include:

• What does it mean in practice?
• Beyond regulation and pandemics, what have we learned?
• Share your stories of delivering on true relationship-based care

Topics may include:

• Is there a role for ‘day care’ services in dementia care?
• Tell us about your innovative service or what else needs to happen?
• What does ‘good’ respite look like?

Topics may include:

• Lessons from the pandemic – isolation and engagement in care settings
• What is ‘quality’ residential care and what innovation need to be shared?
• Complexity in dementia care – shaping our future services

Topics may include:

• Transitioning people with dementia from hospital to home
• Research, pilot projects and best practice care experiences
• Supporting people with dementia in acute care settings

Topics may include:

• End of life decision making and advance care planning
• Staying at home
• Palliative care projects and learning from practice
• Supporting families and care staff

Topics may include:

• Approaching risk in a risk averse landscape
• Risk reduction programs versus risk ‘embracing’ programs
• What is ‘acceptable risk’ for people living at home or in residential care with dementia and how do we address this?

Topics may include

• Understanding and responding to LGBTQI+ people living with dementia and their carers – what we need to know?
• Sexuality in older age: supporting staff to adopt professional approaches, confronting taboos and navigating wellness
• New relationships – how do we address the needs of a person with dementia when they no longer identify with their spouse?
• Culturally and linguistically diverse approaches to care – responding to our workforce and beyond

Topics may include:

• Research into technology platforms and their use
• Ethical dilemmas and issues in practice
• What rights to privacy do staff have if they are on camera all the time?
• What new technologies are driving innovation in residential and community care?
• Demonstrations or displays will be considered

Topics may include:

• Smaller environments in an endemic COVID world
• Refurbishment projects: what we need to think about and what we can learn from experience
• What do we mean when we talk about ‘community’, ‘village’, ‘care home’ ?
• Designs that meet the needs of people with complex care needs or at end of life

Topics may include:

• Do sensory changes mean we need to think about food and mealtimes in a different way?
• Is it all about a person’s weight or is it about wellbeing?
• What does it mean to support someone to eat what they want, even if it’s against guidance? How do we support choice at the interface of regulation and guidance?

Topics may include:

• The latest research in pain and its impact
• Why is pain still under-recognised in care – what is the missing piece?
• Responding to pain in diverse communities and settings, innovation, and opportunity

Topics may include:

• Beyond the pandemic, what are we delivering?
• Taking a reablement approach to dementia care
• Sharing the stories of success and innovation

Topics may include:

• Share personal views, clinical and practical experience, and research
• Beyond religion – delivering pastoral care
• The role of frameworks and tools to assist us in delivering pastoral care

Topics may include:

• We welcome First Nations communities sharing their direct experience of practice and support programs
• Speakers addressing gaps and proposing changes and innovations into the future
• International opportunities for learning