Supporting Conversation, Connection, and Memories
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Annabel Grant: Presentation to Dementia Matewareware Network Hui July 2024 
Description:
Annabel is a speech and language therapist specialising in dementia mate wareware. She teaches at Massey University and is the expert advisor in dementia mate wareware for the New Zealand Speech Language Therapist's Association. In this presentation, she gives valuable information about authentically communicating and navigating common issues when spending time with people living with dementia mate wareware.
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Communication Matters: Carer's Perspectives
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Cheryl Nettleton and Nick Uys: Whānau / Family supporters: Presentation to Dementia Matewareware Network Hui July 2024 
Description:
Cheryl’s introduction to dementia was when her husband started to display out-of-character behaviours around the age of 50. Cheryl is involved in carers’ groups and shares her perspective as a carer in the hope that it strengthens an emotional connection to people living with dementia mate wareware. Nick was married to his beloved wife Annie for 44 years and became Annie's full-time carer until she entered aged residential care. Nick is committed to sharing his perspective as a carer as a way to make a positive impact.
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Supporting Communication Skills and Identity
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Katrina McGarr (Ngāi Tahu) and Megan Eustace (Taranaki, Ngāti Raukawa)  
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Katrina is a clinical educator and speech-language therapist. Her clinical interests include supporting people living with dementia and their whānau to maintain a connection through meaningful communication. Katrina is a member of the Dementia Canterbury Board. Megan is a speech-language therapist and a PhD candidate with a special interest in Māori perspectives of communication support.
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MESSAGE Communication in Dementia: Strategies for Care Staff 
Author:
UQ Dementia Care
Description:
MESSAGE is a set of real-life strategies designed to help facilitate communication with people with dementia. This video presents the MESSAGE strategies for Care Staff working with people with dementia. Each strategy is introduced and demonstrated in acted scenes within the aged care setting. This version has subtitles. The MESSAGE strategies were developed by a team of dementia care researchers at the University of Queensland.
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Dementia - The "Communication Disease"
Author:
Alison Wray
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A video from Professor Alison Wray of Cardiff University providing practical ideas on how to avoid common pitfalls while communicating with people living with dementia mate wareware.

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Quilting Narrative: Using Repetition Techniques to Help Elderly Communicators
Author:
Angela Ballard
Description:
A slide show presentation based on the work of Linda Moore and Boyd Davis. Their work outlines how people can help those living with dementia mate wareware piece together personal narratives using collaborative techniques to identify and reclaim stories.
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Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna = The Sayings of the Ancestors
Author:
Hirini Hoko Mead, Neil Grove
Description:

This book contains more than 2,500 pepeha, or "sayings of the ancestors," that were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in the formal speeches heard every day on the marae and in the oral literature handed down from past generations. These expressions provide a rich source of vocabulary, using metaphor and an economy of words to show language that enriches the Maori of today.

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Worlded Object and its Presentation: A Māori Philosophy of Language
Author:
Carl Te Hira Mika
Description:

In an era concerned with the survival of Indigenous languages, language as a general phenomenon needs to be thought of as thoroughly connected to one’s worldview. In this article, Professor Mika proposes a different conception of language that sides more with what he call ‘the worlding of things’ than linguistics. He considers the possibility that, within the representation of one entity in perception, there exist all other entities.

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Dancing bodies and Indigenous ontology: what does the haka reveal about the Māori relationship with the Earth?
Author:
Vincent Clemēnte
Description:

This essay seeks to explore the extent to which the haka can be seen as an unparalleled source for approaching Māori understandings of the world and their relationship with the Earth.

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Non-Western theories of communication: Indigenous ideas and insights
Author:
Yoshitaka Miike
Description:
This chapter presents an overview of non-Western communication theories for cross-cultural and intercultural research. The chapter specifically focuses on selected Afrocentric and Asiacentric theories of communication because they represent communication theories whose ideas and insights spring from indigenous cumulative wisdom of non-Western cultural traditions
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