Dementia Rehabilitation: Webinar 1 - Rights, communication, living Well

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Dementia: Rehabilitation matters!
Webinar 1 : rights, communication, living well


<h2>The first of two webinars on rehabilitation for people with dementia focuses on rights, communication and living well.</h2><p>This series of webinars features experts in the field and will outline recent evidence and clinical application as described in our newly released book <em>Dementia Rehabilitation: Evidence-Based Interventions and Clinical Recommendations</em>. The webinars are intended to be useful for researchers and clinicians and people with dementia and their care partners.</p><p><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/books/dementia-rehabilitation/low/978-0-12-818685-5" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.elsevier.com/books/dementia-rehabilitation/low/978-0-12-818685-5</a></p><p><strong>Presenters</strong>: Ms Kate Swaffer, Ms Sarah EI-Wahsh, Ms Penelope Monroe, Dr Monica Cations and A/Professor Kate Laver</p><p><strong>Chairs: </strong>Associate Prof Lee-Fay Low and Associate Prof Kate Laver</p><p><strong>10th November @  8pm Sydney, 9am London</strong></p><h3></h3><h2>About this webinar:</h2><h3>Rehabilitation as a human right</h3><p><strong>Kate Swaffer, Chair/CEO and Co-Founder of Dementia Alliance International</strong></p><p>Ms Swaffer is an activist, academic and keynote speaker, and is known for her expertise in the area of human rights and dementia and dementia as a disability. She is co-founder and Chair of Dementia Alliance International, a peak organisation globally representing persons with dementia. She has written three books on dementia.</p><h3>Communication interventions</h3><p><strong>Sarah El-Wahsh and Penelope Monroe, University of Sydney</strong></p><p>Ms El-Wahsh and Ms Monroe are speech pathologists and PhD candidates in the area of language disorders and communication in people with neurological conditions.</p><h3>Psychological wellbeing</h3><p><strong>Monica Cations , Flinders University</strong></p><p>Dr Cations is a provisional psychologist and epidemiologist who has worked in the ageing and dementia field for over a decade.	</p><h3>Maintaining independence in activities of daily living</h3><p><strong>Kate Laver, Flinders University</strong></p><p>Associate Prof Laver is an occupational therapist and research fellow with expertise in improving function for people with dementia and knowledge translation.</p><p><strong>10 November: 8pm Sydney, 9am London</strong></p><p>Enquiries, please contact:</p><p>Tanya Duckworth - tanya.duckworth@sydney.edu.au</p><p>Register for Webinar 2: Work, exercise, play: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/122360994027" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/122360994027</a></p>

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