Bring Back The Joy. Dance For Connection.
This September, turn your favourite moves into a lifeline!
Join a national movement hosting dance-a-thons across Australia to support Umbrella Dementia Cafes - giving families navigating dementia, the community, acceptance and joy they deserve.
The Power of Moving Together
For someone living with dementia, the world can slowly feel like it's shrinking. Isolation creeps in, and ordinary social spaces can become overwhelming.
But music and dance change everything.
Music taps into parts of the brain untouched by dementia. It sparks memories, unlocks spontaneous joy and breaks through isolation. We Dance Against Dementia because movement is medicine, and every dollar you raise funds Umbrella Dementia Cafés. These are warm, multigenerational peer-support spaces where individuals with dementia and their families can step out of the isolation and into a community that truly understands, accepts, and celebrates them.
Ready To Make An Impact?
Whether you’re a local dance school, a workplace, an aged care community, or just want to host a kitchen disco with friends - anyone, anywhere can host.
Claim Your Date
Choose any day this September during Dementia Awareness Month, to host your dance event. A rock ’n’ roll afternoon tea, silent disco, your gym class or a 24-hour marathon - you set the rules!
Build Your Dance Crew
Register for free in just 2 minutes. Create a team or individual page, set a fundraising goal and invite your friends, family, or colleagues to join you.
Move and Multiply Impact
Share your personalised page with your network. Every dollar your community sponsors keeps the music playing and the doors open at vital community dementia cafés nationwide.
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Did you know that dancing can delay and prevent the onset of Dementia*?
*Find out more about the benefits of dancing for brain health here
Start dancing today
Research shows that dancing can help reduce the onset of dementia and improve cognitive function. It’s especially important for people as young as 30 to incorporate regular dancing into their life. So, don’t wait to start the fight against dementia, start dancing today.
Dance Against Dementia this September.
Register yourself or a team and join our dance-a-thon challenge for Dementia Awareness Month. Dance for someone you love living with dementia.
How your fundraising helps
Every dollar you raise will help empower people living with dementia.
Umbrella Dementia Cafés™ are a network of informal community peer support groups, called 'cafés', designed to improve the social health and well-being of people living in the community with dementia as well as their families and carers.
We believe the key to personal well-being is social connectedness and having a community support network around you. We are a community who understand you, accept you and include you. Our mission is to bring people hope, connection and a better quality of life.
Dance Against Dementia helps Umbrella Dementia Cafés™ establish more dementia café programs.
A special thanks to our sponsors
Get ready to dance like nobody’s watching!
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