Eileen was diagnosed at aged 59 with Alzheimer’s and unable to receive NDIS as the scheme was currently unavailable in her area. Once the NDIS became available, Eileen was then deemed too old to meet the criteria for NDIS and was put onto the Aged Care Scheme, but this provided them with less support. Eileen and Dubhglas will share their experience of navigating the NDIS & the Aged Care Scheme

• The current upheaval in Alzheimer’s research and how the main theory of cause is now much more complicated than originally thought
• Challenging the last 20 years of Alzheimer’s research
• The myths around Amyloid – is this just a marker or a cause
• Where do we go from here? What is the cause? What’s next with the research?

• How can this be done quickly and efficiently for early detection?
• Can education help with recognising symptoms and how do we educate families?
• What is the new research within this scope?
• Standardising the journey from a memory clinic – how do we overcome this?

• What our approach should to be building the dementia capability of the aged care workforce
• How to ensure that education is applied
• Creating dementia practice leaders

• What can providers do?
• What can the government do?
• What can the Aged Care Quality Commission do?
• How do we ensure that the improved capability is sustainable and universal?
• What can the workforce do to build upon capacity when it’s not just the responsibility of the government and providers?

Given the majority of people living with dementia remain in their own home what do we know about good models of care that offer appropriate levels of support.

• What is the role of reablement?
• How do we best training and support aged care workers?
• How can we improve the built environment of the home?
• Is this more cost effective than residential aged care?

• Best practice, person centred care
• The shift from a traditional model of aged care to one that consistently and sustainably supported our vision
• Inclusive and innovate change management approach
• The ‘Birch Pathway’

• Provide information on system of delivery of memory clinic services to rural & remote areas.
• Consider challenges of metro memory clinics which concurrently delivers outreach clinics over very long distances – example of Broome
• How technology can help deliver memory clinics.
• Range of memory clinic services in a large sparsely populated state.

• KACS role and experiences and how this works in the community
• Lived stories from people living with dementia, their carers/family on country
• Revisiting the Community Care Workers and what they do on the ground in their Communities
• How the Community Care Workers partner with Alzheimer’s WA / Dementia Support Australia and Clinics Allied Health

• Holistic Care Planning: clinical, functional health – all individually important
• Care givers and care giver stress and strategies for carer inclusion
• Improving support for people with dementia and their carers in various settings
• The challenge around workforce planning and the provision around homecare and the issues are interfaces
• The role of the carers and the aged care workforce