Equity in Dementia Care: What Are the Gaps and How Can We Improve Care for the People Who Need It Most?

Diversity is Canada’s strength; yet this strength is often overlooked or forgotten about when providing care for people living with dementia across Canada. This causes many people – including people living with dementia and their primary unpaid caregivers – to fall through the cracks, receive inadequate or culturally unsafe care, and miss opportunities to improve their well-being and quality of life.

Taking place during Pride Month, this webinar brings together voices and perspectives from 2SLGBTQI+ people and racialized and culturally diverse communities to examine the gaps that leave too many people living with dementia and their primary unpaid caregivers without the care they need and deserve.

So how can we do better?

Join us for an exploration of the barriers that people living with dementia and their primary unpaid caregivers face across Canada’s dementia care systems – and the discrimination and systemic inequities that create them. Centring the voices and lived realities of racialized and culturally diverse communities and 2SLGBTQI+ people, this webinar will discuss what equitable, inclusive, and affirming dementia care can look like for those navigating intersecting identities and systemic barriers.