Kate Swaffer
Researcher, Activist, PhD Candidate
University of South Australia
Kate Swaffer is an activist, author and international speaker, and a PhD Candidate and researcher at the University of South Australia, School of Justice and Society, investigating disability rights for people with dementia. She provides significant insights into improving the impact of people with dementia who provide living experience and co design.
As a global award-winning disability rights campaigner, including the 2017 Australian Of The Year in SA, she has been a major catalyst for rehabilitation for people with dementia and disability rights. Swaffer has a MSc (Dementia Care), BPsych, BA, is retired chef and retired nurse, and Ambassador for Step Up For Dementia Research Australia and the Australia Day Council SA. Her independent research focuses on dementia rehabilitation, improving quality of life and independence, reducing stigma and reparations and redress for harm experienced by people in residential care.
SESSIONS
Day 2
9:30
Keynote: Improving co-design to improve systems change
Explore how international dementia activism and the disability rights movement have the potential to reshape aged care and dementia care through co-design and shared leadership
Learn what it takes to move beyond tokenism and embed the voices of people with dementia in systems-level decision-making
Kate Swaffer, Researcher, Activist, PhD Candidate, University of South Australia