Thanks for joining conference 2026

Thanks for registering for conference 2026!

We’ll add resources to this page as we get them including the conference recording, presentations and answers to any questions from the event we weren’t able to answer on the day and we have followed up.

This page is available for three months after the conference for everybody who registered.

Presentations

• Antoinette McLean – Community participation
• Bill Yeates – The changing nature of hope
• Bill Yeates – The importance of adopting a holistic person-led approach when
• Caroline Bartle – Ethics and dementia
• Caroline Bartle – Workforce challenges
• Daniel Paul – What makes a story compelling
• David Cunliffe – A place to grow old
• Denise Cosgrove and Lady Tureiti Moxon – Kaupapa Māori service
• Frank and Judy Solomon – Building workforce in local communities – a lived experience perspective
• Helen Frank and Kelly Tamati – Creating a flexible and responsive service living with Younger onset dementia
• Jane Murray – Lying and dementia
• Jendi Paterson – This is what love looks like
• Lee-Fay Lowe – Delivering quality
• Lynette Gopperth – How can you make a difference for us
• Margaret Milne – What does InterRai data tell us about people living with
• Matthew Croucher – Diagnosis and post diagnostic support
• Maurice Curtis – What does the science tell us
• Ngaire Kerse and Colleen Dunn – Evaluation of Dementia Ecosystem and Pilot
• Rayleen Wright – Grief and dementia
• Tom Love – How they use their data to shape the services they purchase
• Tracey Lanigan and Lisa Harvey – The Shed that makes mistakes
• Val Pollard and Ruth Seeman – What does good look like
• Warren Elwin – A national workforce plan for dementia support
• Wayne Naylor – Hospice NZ national data management