Forward with Dementia

12/06/2025

Check out this community presentation webinar with Dr Meredith Gresham Facing Dementia Together about learning the signs and symptoms of dementia, how to ask your GP and get support.

The Face Dementia community campaign ran in Western Sydney and Adelaide in 2023 and 2024. This webinar covers the same topics as the community presentations ...

11/06/2025

Our latest post explores how cooking can be a fun and purposeful pastime for people living with dementia and families. It also has the potential to boost brain health through a combination of physical, cognitive, and social engagement. 🥣

https://forwardwithdementia.au/news/cooking-up-a-storm/

Cooking can be a fun and purposeful pastime. It also has potential to boost brain health through a combination of physical, cognitive, and social engagement.

03/06/2025

Our Winter 2025 and final newsletter is now available with stories on cooking, kettle exercises, Facing Dementia Together launch, a new community presentation resource and a medication update.

You can read the newsletter via this link: https://mailchi.mp/unsw/forward-with-dementia-final-newsletter

This is our last Forward with Dementia Newsletter. We thank the hundreds of people who subscribed or wrote to us and to those who found the Forward with Dementia website a useful companion while navigating the perplexing weeks and months following a diagnosis of dementia.

Despite this being our last newsletter, the Forward with Dementia website is continuing!