Call for submissions: Engaging Dementia International Conference 2024

Engaging Dementia is accepting submissions for abstracts, interactive sessions, demonstrations, and posters for their 16th International Dementia Conference, taking place 8-9 May 2024 in Mullingar.

Engaging Dementia provides bespoke training for those who care for people living with dementia in care settings and family homes in Ireland. The 2024 conference will exploring the theme ‘Diversity in Dementia: Embracing Differences, Connecting Minds’.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Beyond Alzheimer’s: The Other Dementias
• Dementia and Companion Conditions
• Dementia and the Arts
• Dementia and the LGBTQI+ Community
• End of Life and Palliative Care
• Ethnic Minorities and Dementia Care
• Exploring Play and Joy as Adults
• Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia
• Non-Pharmaceutical Approaches to Care
• The Power of Pets: Animals within Dementia Care

Multi-stakeholder / multi-disciplinary applications are welcomed.

Closing date for submissions: 31 January 2024.

Apply here: https://engagingdementia.ie/16thidc-call_for_abstracts/