Dementia in the public domain: voice and age-based perspectives on dementia, social disadvantage and public health campaigning

Authors
Simon Biggs, Irja Haapala and Ashley Carr
Published
2019

The second of two projects examining how various groups perceive and represent dementia.

This project was funded through the NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre and led by Professor Simon Biggs of the University of Melbourne and BSL’s Research and Policy Centre. It is the second of two projects.

Read more about these two research projects related to dementia and care.

The first study, commenced in 2014, concerns the role of regulation in dementia care. In partnership with NHMRC, HammondCare, the Brightwater Care Group, Helping Hand Aged Care (SA) and Alzheimer’s Australia, researchers from the University of Melbourne and BSL investigated how regulation affects the dementia care practices of several service providers, by consulting management, care workers, people with dementia and carers.

Related journal article

Simon Biggs and Ashley Carr 2018, ‘Balancing compliance and care in dementia practice’, in Australian Journal of Dementia Care, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 26–30.

Last updated on 28 February 2020

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