The 9th National MND Australia Conference, hosted by MND South Australia, was held on Friday 31 August. The conference MND Care: Informing, Influencing, Innovating attracted over 200 delegates with diverse health, allied health and community support backgrounds from around Australia and New Zealand.
About one out of every ten people with MND will receive a diagnosis of ‘motor neurone disease with frontotemporal dementia' or MND/FTD. Often the symptoms of dementia precede the motor symptoms, sometimes by a number of years. The 11th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias (ICFTD) is on in Sydney during November and running concurrently with the ICFTD 2018 program will be a specialist day on Tuesday 13 November focused on issues and challenges for carers.
The MND NSW e-news September 2018 edition was emailed to members and subscribers on 29 August. You can read this edition here. Get the e-news delivered your inbox by subscribing to the MND NSW e-news.
Thank you to everyone who supported our Batemans Bay Walk on Sunday 26 August. Although there was a bit of rain overnight, the morning sun shone brightly. Many wonderful families and friends gathered to show their support for people with motor neurone disease. Thank you to the local Lions Club for their yummy sausage sizzle and the many stall holders who supported the Walk. A special thank you to the large contingent who made the trek across from Young and to the Go Go Girls who raised over $4500. It was a great day with over $11,500 raised.
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