{"id":8920,"date":"2023-11-27T06:15:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alamarlife.com\/ific-australia-webinar-nereide-curreri-presents-alamar-life\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T22:20:33","slug":"ific-australia-webinar-nereide-curreri-presents-alamar-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alamarlife.com\/en\/ific-australia-webinar-nereide-curreri-presents-alamar-life\/","title":{"rendered":"IFIC AUSTRALIA WEBINAR – NEREIDE CURRERI PRESENTS ALAMAR LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IFIC Australia Webinar \u2013 Improving the lives of people living with dementia<\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”8847″ img_size=”full” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/integratedcarefoundation.org\/events\/ific-australia-webinar-improving-the-lives-of-people-living-with-dementia”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The International Foundation of Integrated Care<\/em> (IFIC) Australia<\/em> has proposed a<\/strong> webinar on improving the lives of people with dementia.<\/a> October 31, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Drawing on expertise from New South Wales Australia, this webinar explores living and lived experiences of dementia, and how we can improve quality of life both in the early stage of dementia, and in the last months of life.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text]Facilitated by Zoi Triandafilidis<\/strong>, Research Project Manager Central Coast Research Institute for Integrated Care (CCRI)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Panellists:<\/p>\n

Georgie Quick<\/strong>: Research Support Officer from CCLHD with a Bachelor of Biomedical Science.<\/p>\n

Christine Sender-Ivanov<\/strong>: Gerontological Nursing (UTAS), Consultant Dementia Care Coordinator War Memorial Hospital Waverly, NSW.<\/p>\n

Bobby Redman<\/strong>: Chair Dementia Australia Advisory Committee Community Advocate and Lived Experience Consumer.<\/p>\n

Prof Dimity Pond<\/strong>: Clinical Professor of General Practice University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Dr Sally Carr<\/strong>: Director Palliative Care Service Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD).<\/p>\n

Nereide A Curreri<\/strong>: Gerontologist specialized in dementia and integrated care, Researcher Centre of Competence on Ageing SUPSI, Switzerland.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][vc_single_image image=”8846″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nereide Alhena Curreri, PhD<\/strong> is a gerontologist with special interests in dementia and integrated care. She currently holds a position as researcher with the Centre of Competence on Ageing at the University of Applied Sciences & Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Nereide earned a PhD in Dementia Studies from the University of Stirling, Scotland, and an MSc in Gerontology from the Vrije University of Amsterdam, NL.<\/p>\n

Her in field experience is in community projects for older people and people living with dementia in Scotland, with care homes in Italy, as Geriatric Care Manager in home care and starting-up and managing a dementia unit in California, US. Nereide\u2019s aims include raising awareness of integrated dementia care at system, organisation, and community levels, and bringing to the forefront of policy and community agendas social determinants of wellbeing and quality of life through a gerontological perspective.<\/p>\n

She is author of recent academic publications. Nereide also holds a position as extraordinary researcher at the Optentia Research Unit of North-West University South Africa, and is a senior associate at the International Foundation of Integrated Care.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”22px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”92px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Dr. Curreri, in her presentation at the webinar: ‘Improving the lives of people living with dementia’, presented the Experience Nature<\/em> method and outlined the intention to initiate transnational research on the benefits of watching Alamar videos for people living with dementia, their families and caregivers.<\/span><\/div>\n

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