14th Alzheimer’s Australia National Conference.

Our MC, the renowned comedian and motivational speaker Robyn Moore, will lead an exciting three days of discussion and debate between leading experts from Australia and overseas.

Professor and author Steven R Sabat, from Georgetown University, whose research focuses on the intact cognitive and social abilities (including aspects of selfhood) of people with Alzheimer's disease in the moderate to severe stages of the disease. Professor Sabat is also interested in the subjective experience of dementia; the ways in which communication may be enhanced between people with dementia and their caregivers, and the epistemological basis of our understanding of the effects of brain injury on human beings.

Philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic, Professor Raymond Tallis retired from medicine in 2006 to become a full-time writer. Professor Tallis was professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester and a consultant physician in Health Care of the Elderly in Salford, and remains Visiting Professor at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. Among his 200+ medical publications and 18 books are explorations of what it means to be human, an alternative understanding of human consciousness, and text books on the clinical neurology of old age.

Researcher Diana Kerr, has many years' experience in the field of social work, both as a practitioner and as an educator. She developed and was director of the MSc degree in Dementia Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland before moving to the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, where she continues her research into intellectual disability and dementia. Ms Kerr is also an advisor to service providers and planners who support people with dementia; and a trainer for direct care staff, managers and health and social work professionals.