Dementia is a deeply personal, challenging and complex experience: for people living with the condition and for the families, loved ones and communities providing care.

Pushing the frontiers of human centred technology could reshape the future of dementia.

Sir Gustav Nossal AC, CBE, joins Swinburne’s expert panellists to explore efforts being undertaken to reshape the individual experience of dementia – from close to the heart to the farthest reaches of technology.

While the search for a cure continues, how can we drive advances in human centred technology to improve models of care today while also shaping a new future?

More about our panellists

Dementia is not just a medical issue or condition, it includes much broader social challenges for those people living with dementia. According to Dementia Australia, more than one million people will have a diagnosis of dementia in Australia by 2058.

Our expert panellists will share the global improvements to the very individual experience of dementia – from close to the heart to the farthest reaches of technology.

 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE

Sir Gustav Nossal, eminent immunologist, advocate for global health, and Australian of the Year (2000) — will share his very personal journey and experience of dementia and its impacts on his wife and best friend Lady Lyn Nossal.

Professor Nilmini Wickramashinge

Professor Nilmini Wickramashinge, Deputy Director Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne, Professor-Director Health Informatics Management, Epworth HealthCare — local technology enabled drivers of global innovation in dementia research and prediction.

Professor Jane Farmer

Professor Jane Farmer, Foundation Director Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne — combining services, communities and technology to improve access to care in local, remote and rural communities.

Professor Sunil Bhar

Professor Sunil Bhar, Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, co-director of the Wellbeing Clinic for Older Adults at Swinburne — embracing technology: digital storytelling and the national telehealth mental health care service.

Event contact

alumnievents@swin.edu.au

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