Feel better prepared for life with dementia

For people with dementia

For carers

For healthcare professionals

This website gives you answers after a dementia diagnosis.

You’ll find up-to-date information from clinicians and researchers, practical suggestions and stories from people living with dementia and carers, and tools to help you come to terms and live positively with dementia.

This website is your guide for the first year after diagnosis. It will help you choose your own path forward with dementia.

Explore stories and news

Becoming a dementia advocate – Bill Yeates

By sharing our experiences and our stories we help to reduce dementia-related stigma, and we help to inform and empower others.

Carer turned dementia advocate – Val Fell

Val continues to lead a local carers support group and is greatly valued for her empathy, willingness to help, and expert knowledge of the aged care system.

Becoming a dementia advocate – Bobby Redman

I encourage others living with dementia, or caring for someone with dementia to consider becoming an advocate and undertake Dementia Advocate Training through Dementia Australia.