World Alzheimer’s Day falls on 21 September and the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is making sure everyone gets a chance at understanding the illness. The Moving Pictures project pioneered by NARI launched 12 short films in Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, and Spanish aimed at raising awareness about dementia among culturally and linguistically diverse communities. To read the full article, click HERE

Dr Thu Ha Dang, one of our researchers from a Vietnamese background took part in an interview about our Moving Pictures project with SBS Radio. You can listen to the interview here

Read the full article in the July, 2021 edition of Research Australia's INSPIRE magazine!

Il Globo-Melbourne-based Italian newspaper- has recently published an article about the evaluation of our Italian films! The article will be uploaded shortly!

Moving Pictures is raising awareness of dementia in many culturally and linguistically diverse communities and now they need the help of the Greek community to evaluate informative short films. To read the full story, click here

The first generation of Greek Australians is ageing, and concurrently dementia rates are increasing. Currently, there are 447,115 Australians living with dementia and this number is expected to surpass 1 million by 2058. National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) is calling for assistance from the Greek-Australian community to evaluate three new Greek-language short films about dementia. Read full story   

Moving Pictures is an innovative multimedia project to raise awareness of the problems of dementia in the CALD (Culturally And Linguistically Diverse) communities. Listen to the interview with Moving Pictures Italian-speaking research assistant Carlo Guaia here.

As the first generation of Greek Australians age, the prevalence of dementia is on the rise. Moving Pictures, spearheaded by Associate Professor Bianca Brijnath, is a series of short films and comics that seek to raise awareness about dementia and services available by documenting the experiences of informal carers, such as family and friends who look after their loved ones, as well as featuring professionals from key service providers the likes of Pronia and Fronditha [...]