Kate Swaffer (MSc, BPsych, BA, Ret. Rtd. Nurse) is a researcher, activist, consultant, author and co-founder of Dementia Alliance International. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia.
In the 16 years since her own diagnosis of a rare young onset dementia, she has learned to live with it instead of waiting to die from it, and has become a campaigner for dementia to be supported as a condition causing disabilities, including equal access to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for the 57 million people living with dementia globally.
She’s made multiple statements and speeches at the United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO), and is the first person with dementia to be an invited speaker at the WHO. Kate is also an Ambassador for the ADC (SA) and for Step Up For Dementia Research in Australia.
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