What does it mean to live well with dementia?

Talk Description
By 2058, close to one million Australians will be living with dementia. We have care homes, government programs, and clinical protocols, but what we often lack is something more fundamental: a genuine understanding of what it means to live a good life.

Yun-Hee Jeon has spent her career studying exactly that, through world-first trials in person centred care and dementia rehabilitation, work inside care homes and community programs, and the lens of her own family. Her research shows that small acts of respect rather than control can transform the dementia journey.

Speaker
Professor Yun-Hee Jeon holds the Susan and Isaac Wakil Chair of Healthy Aging at the University of Sydney's School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has led several world-first trials in person centred care and dementia care, including I-HARP, an interdisciplinary rehabilitation model for people with dementia living in the community, and the ongoing I-CHARP trial in residential aged care. She has published more than 200 scholarly papers, delivered over 100 invited talks, and in 2022 was recognised by the United Nations as one of its Healthy Ageing 50: fifty leaders working to transform the world into a better place to grow older.

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