In 2020, Kate Swaffer joined the Influencers included in our magazine. A prolific author and spokesperson for people living with dementia, she speaks openly and candidly to a global community. Read Kate’s powerful message: “The OECD response concluded in 2015 that ‘people with dementia receive the worst care of any disease in the developed world.’  Nothing has changed… Shame on us…. It is time to #ChooseToChallenge this, not to continue to sweep the known abuse and neglect, including sexual assaults of older persons and people with dementia receiving aged or community care under the carpet.”

Reader beware: Her message is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed, shame on us.

Read Kate’s powerful message: Last week, I was pleased to be invited by the University of South Australia Chancellor Pauline Carr to attend the Adelaide International Women’s Day Breakfast, #IWD2021 highlighting women’s leadership this year. The MC was the wonderful Sonya Feldhoff from ABC Radio Adelaide, and guest speakers included Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, Leader of the Opposition of the Senate and Natasha Stott Despoja AO who is the founding Chair of Our Watch (the Foundation to Prevent Violence Against Women and their Children).  Continue here.

Posted by: Susan Troyer