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A new review of post-diagnostic community services for people living with dementia and their care partners has been produced to help guide New Zealand planning.

On 1 September, the first day of World Alzheimers Awareness Month, the New Zealand Dementia Foundation launched a major new educational initiative: Dementia STARs

Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand , in partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority, is seeking suitable applicants for seven positions on the National Dementia Mate Wareware Leadership and Advisory Group (DLG).

This is an exciting milestone in progressing the New Zealand Dementia Mate Wareware Action plan. We warmly encourage our NZ Dementia Foundation whānau to consider registering an expression of interest or nomination for this outstanding opportunity. 

The Quizmaster, Barry Prince (83) is aware of the irony of asking quiz questions of the AD community, when many of them suffer from memory problems, but explains: “My family member suffering from AD has wonderful memories about life in the 20th century, but struggles to recall what happened in the big netball tournament last week. Accordingly, I have selected quick quizzes from the archive that are focused on people and events before the new millennium.”
 
Each of the Quick Quizzes is confined to 10 questions a single subject – pop music, films, celebrities, history, and geography, for example. There aren’t any questions about politics or science – Barry says anyone who missed Chemistry and Physics at college won’t be handicapped. Most of the questions are about things that happened in the 20th century.