Q & A about Dementia and memory loss: have your questions answered

Includes ‘Dad, you’ve got Dementia’ book reading and Q & A with author Kirsten Phillips

Light refreshments will be provided

Date: Monday 2nd December 2024
Time: 10am – midday
Venue: Chartwell Cooperating Church Hall, 126 Comries Road, Chartwell, Hamilton
RSVP: Dementia Waikato on 07 929 4042, or email waikato@dementia.nz by Thursday 28th November for catering purposes.

Author Profile:

Kristen Phillips is the author of Dad You’ve Got Dementia: Conversations with my father (The Cuba Press, July 2023). She grew up in Te Awa Kairangi / Lower Hutt and is tangata Tiriti, with ancestors from Scotland and England. At the end of 1987 she went travelling ‘for a year’ and returned to Aotearoa after thirty years based in London. During her time in London, she completed courses at the Poetry School and was part of a writing group for over ten years.  Her father, Don, showed signs of memory-loss in 2011, was diagnosed with dementia in 2016, and died in 2019. She currently lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with her partner, the writer Mia Farlane. As well as working on her second book and writing reviews of dementia books for the New Zealand Dementia Foundation, she works part-time for Dementia Wellington and Dementia New Zealand.