Both Enabling EDIE™ and Exploring Dementia were awarded runner-up in the 2020 and 2021 Future of Ageing Awards respectively.
This session features Dementia Australia and their Virtual Reality dementia education technology Enabling EDIE™, which is used in conjunction with a specialist Exploring Dementia program tailored for First Nations communities.
Inside Ageing has written about the benefits of Enabling EDIE™ before, so this session is more about the outcomes being achieved in remote and isolated communities throughout Australia.
- Nowhere is too far to go for Dementia Australia – Bringing Virtual Reality (“Enabling Edie” ) to remote communities.
- Exploring Dementia through Virtual Reality
- Stories from First Nations communities on their experience of “Enabling EDIE”
The session, moderated by Inside Ageing’s Sean McKeown will feature the following speakers:

