🎶 Unveiling Music and Memories, a special initiative in partnership with the Talent Development Project that taps into the power of music to evoke joy and unlock memories in people with dementia.

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Looking forward to joining Prof Limin Mao and Dr Edgar Liu in this upcoming in-person event run by ADA x Health @ The Bank, looking at recent inclusive healthy ageing initiatives. You can register here:
eventbrite.com.au/e/ada-x-health…

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Limin Mao
UNSW Ageing Futures Institute

Happy National Advance Care Planning week! #acpweek22 Advance Care Planning Australia is coordinating a range of great events this week. And the first ACP-International webinar too, with spotlight on Aus (Tues night AEDT zcu.io/24Ki) and NZ (Wed AM AEDT zcu.io/p2KT)

Pause Program for Carers - Matisse Alive palliverse.com/2022/03/10/pau… via Palliverse this Saturday at the Art Gallery of NSW, bookings online.

The Advance Care Planning International Committee is presenting a series of webinars exploring how healthcare systems around the world implement advance care planning. Australia (zcu.io/24Ki) and New Zealand (zcu.io/p2KT) will kick off 22 and 23 March.

Advance Care Planning International 2022 Webinar Series – “Advance care planning – what’s in the pill?” palliverse.com/2022/02/24/adv… via Palliverse Advance Care Planning Australia #advancecareplanning

Grateful for the support NeuRA! This NHMRC funded work in #advancecareplanning includes collaborators Josephine Clayton Tracy Comans Liz Halcomb Elissa Campbell Advance Care Planning Australia Brightwater Care Group Simon Towler (and some other lovely peeps who are not yet tweeps)

Feeling excited and honoured to work with a fantastic team on this advance care planning project, which will commence next year thanks to funding through the NHMRC Targeted Call for research in end of life care. CEPAR UNSW Ageing Futures Institute NeuRA

Important new study on supported decision-making shows how it engages individuals with disabilities in decision-making. But casts doubt on its ability to enable individuals to realize their own will & preferences. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Christine Bigby Shih-Ning Then #supporteddecisions

Deepest respect for Theresa Flavin and @NPSMedicineWise team in this compelling video about the daily experience of living with dementia. youtu.be/cEelSrQOoIU Dementia Australia Dementia Alliance International Dementia UK Palliverse

CEPAR Research Fellow Craig Sinclair and colleagues explore the uptake and quality of advance care directives (ACDs) among older Australians and associations with person‐level predictors and quality indicators -

Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…

Recent research from Advance Care Planning Australia examines the rates of advance care planning documentation among older adults in health settings in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… #openaccess Palliverse @KarenDetering

Are you a health professional, GP or care worker and want to know more about #advancecareplanning ? Our website provides helpful information including: what's involved, roles and responsibilities and suggestions on how you can start the conversation. Go to: zcu.io/u8Py

Read about our efforts to create a dementia enabling university using a Knowledge Translation approach @uow - A/Prof Lyn Phillipson, Richard Fleming, Kate Swaffer she/her 🌏🌼🧩🤐, Linda Steele, Lynnaire Sheridan, Shawn Burns @uowtv, Kara Cappetta & Elizabeth Cridland, 2021 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NEFXHI6…

At what point do the “Dear Dr. <male PhD> and Emilie” emails end? With tenure? When I get a gender-neutral first name?

Congratulations to Sophie Andrews on her well deserved DECRA!!!! Dr Sophie Andrews CEPAR NeuRA UNSW Ageing Futures Institute UNSW Science

Congratulations A/Prof Lyn Phillipson Lee-Fay Low Belinda Goodenough looking forward to working with you on this project! TalkingMats Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC)

Best quality aged care homes are small & Government-run. 41% of small homes are best quality. Only 5% of big homes are best quality. 24% of public, 13% of not-for-profit & just 4% of for-profit are best quality. ⁦@AHSRI_UOW⁩
⁦@RoyalAged⁩ agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/news-and-media…

RT The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand UNSW Ageing Futures Institute CEPAR NeuRA Advance Care Planning Australia

Only 25% of older Australians have an advance care plan. Coronavirus makes it even more important theconversation.com/only-25-of-old… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand