Spring update: Carer Gateway NSW & QLD partnership, recognition, content updates & more

Nan
Sep 14
2 min read

CARER GATEWAY NSW & QLD

We’re deeply grateful to Carer Gateway Benevolent Society and Carer Gateway Wellways for recognising carers’ needs and partnering with us to make My Dementia Companion CARER more accessible for families impacted by dementia in Sydney Metro, Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Queensland.

If you’re a carer in these areas, your annual or multi-year CARER subscription may now be fully funded by Carer Gateway. Don’t forget, Carer Gateway also offers other valuable help such as respite, in-person or peer support, counselling and more.

So far, we have helped lots of carers from Carer Gateway, who had found My Dementia Companion very helpful:

We’re deeply grateful to Carer Gateway Benevolent Society and Carer Gateway Wellways for recognising carers’ needs and partnering with us to make My Dementia Companion CARER more accessible for families impacted by dementia in Sydney Metro, Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Queensland.

If you’re a carer in these areas, your annual or multi-year CARER subscription may now be fully funded by Carer Gateway. Don’t forget, Carer Gateway also offers other valuable help such as respite, in-person or peer support, counselling and more.

So far, we have helped lots of carers from Carer Gateway, who had found My Dementia Companion very helpful: “Absolutely wonderful and I like the purple screen”.
“You will sleep well today knowing you have changed someone’s life”.
“I have been very impressed with the huge body of work involved and will continue to take nibbles at it over time”

This means CARER subscriptions can now be funded by Carer Gateway in Victoria, most of NSW and all of Queensland. We’re working hard to expand this across all of NSW and other states.

RECOGNITION

As a passion project built by volunteers, every recognition means the world to us. We were truly honoured to:

Receive PALZ’s highest award from founder and advocate Cathy Roth OAM
Be featured in the Order of Australia Association newsletter
Present our work at the Manningham Dementia Seminar.

CONTENT UPDATE

Thanks to our users’ generous feedback, we’ve made hundreds of new updates including dignity of risk, shadowing, financial tips, end of life check-list, home safety check-list, medications impacting dementia progression, hoarding, pressure ulcers, family disputes and much more.

🔄 Please refresh your browser or app to see these updates. For mobile or tablet app, simply tap ‘...More’ button, then ‘Refresh’ button near the bottom of the menu. 🔍You can explore these Section by searching for related keywords.

DEMENTIA TOOLBOXES UPDATE

Our 10-minute Dementia Toolboxes continue to receive wonderful feedback as practical tools for microlearning, quality improvement and more. Recent topics include:

Managing family gatherings
Refusing to stop driving
Sundowning
Repetition
Pain and dementia

👉 If you work with one of our partner organisations and haven’t received them, please reach out.

AND THE WINNER IS...

A big congratulations to Kristine from NSW, the winner of our Contributor Award and a $50 gift voucher! Kristine shared many practical, thoughtful carer tips and constructive feedback. We’re so grateful for her support.

To learn more about this Award, please click here.

DEMENTIA ACTION WEEK

This Dementia Action Week, we’ll be sharing posts to raise awareness and provide practical tips on some of the most impactful topics. So stay tuned on our LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram to join the conversation!

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