Dementia enabling care, design, and services

Yet another illuminating article from Kate Swaffer.

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Screen Shot 2016-04-18 at 6.27.57 pmWritten for and published first for The Aged Care Report Card and their news site RetireNCare on Apr 11, 2016, is my article below:

We need dementia enabling.

The time is now that the aged and dementia care sector not only provides us with better residential care, but the whole sector finds a new way to support us to live, not only to die. 

“Recently I had the pleasure to meet Lauren Todorovic who founded Aged Care Report Card. After a lot of discussion, she asked me if I would be interested in writing for RetireNCare, and as an activist and advocate for people with dementia and those in residential aged care, this was definitely too good an opportunity to pass up!

Part of the vision of the Aged Care Report Card appears to be to highlight what is happening in the aged care sector, but not only to promote the great things happening…

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