International Dementia Conference 2026
Thu, 04 June
|Hilton Sydney
A strong in-person conference for members wanting deeper insight into dementia, palliative care, positive ageing, and person-centred support. The program spans whole-person care, rare dementias, brain health, reablement, compassion, and end-of-life conversations.
Time & Location
04 June 2026, 8:30 am AEST – 05 June 2026, 5:30 pm AEST
Hilton Sydney, 488 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
About the event
Peer-to-peer encouragement for VMHPAA members
The International Dementia Conference 2026 will be held 4–5 June 2026 at the Hilton Sydney. It is an in-personevent led through HammondCare, with a program that brings together dementia, palliative care, aged care, research, lived experience, and practical service innovation.
For VMHPAA members, this is a worthwhile event because it goes well beyond clinical facts about dementia and deals directly with the human, relational, and systems issues that shape practice. The main program includes sessions on centering the whole person, diversity and wholeness, brain health, reablement and positive ageing, whole-of-life conversations, dying well, rare dementias, technology in person-centred care, and wholehearted compassion.
That makes it especially relevant for members working in counselling, psychosocial support, community care, case coordination, family support, grief work, aged care interfaces, and leadership roles. There is clear value here for practitioners wanting to strengthen how they respond to cognitive change, distress, identity, loss, behaviour, family complexity, and end-of-life issues with more depth and confidence.
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