Alister was diagnosed with younger onset Alzheimer’s in 2014 and has become a vocal advocate in New Zealand and internationally.
Lara Hitchcock, Registered Nurse with the Memory Assessment Clinic at Burwood Hospital, shares a selection of dementia and delirium education resources from the past month.
The NZ Dementia Foundation provided a briefing for the incoming Minister in December 2020: Dementia rising to the challenge.
A new all-of-government Action Plan aims to help ensure an inclusive economic recovery from COVID-19 where people with disabilities and health conditions can participate in employment as they want to, on an equal basis to others.