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Port Macquarie Dementia Friendly Garden in the news

by | Sep 7, 2017 | , ,

Our Dementia Garden for Alzheimer’s Australia in Port Macquarie Dementia Friendly Garden was recently featured on ABC News, Port Macquarie and NBN news and mentioned as “the first of its kind in Australia”!

You will also see a video of Alzheimer’s Australia NSW chief executive officer John Watkins who performed the official opening and said the garden will be an invaluable resource for people with dementia and their carers.

Read the news stories below:

  1. ABC News – ‘Garden designed to trigger memories in dementia sufferers opens in Port Macquarie’
  2. Port Macquarie News  – ‘Alzheimer’s Australia NSW dementia-friendly garden opens at Port Macquarie’
  3. NBN News – States First Dementia Friendly Garden Opens 

 

 

Port Macquarie Dementia Garden featured by Cultivate NSW for ‘Dementia & Wellbeing’

by | Jul 6, 2017 | , ,

Our latest work as ‘alliance partners’ to Alzheimer’s Australia NSW on designing their Port Macquarie Dementia Friendly Garden was recently featured by Cultivate NSW as part of their winter issue on ‘Dementia Awareness’. The sensory garden will be used by people living with dementia, their carers and their families to promote physical, emotional and psychologial benefits through a range of tailored dementia sensitive experiences. Once the garden opens in August we will provide you with the full run down on the design thinking behind this one of a kind garden.

Read the Cultivate NSW article here 

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