September is Dementia Awareness Month.

Dust off your dance shoes and join our massive dance-a-thon fundraiser to create more social dementia cafés nationwide!

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Host your own dance-athon

Dance Against Dementia is national fundraising event that happens every September to raise more awareness about dementia and help Umbrella Dementia Cafes support more Australian dementia cafés. Register now to Host Your Own Dance Against Dementia event in 2025! Help us bring more community awareness about dementia and the importance of music & dance to improve brain health and wellbeing!

Friday night drinks with friends never had more purpose.

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 How do I get involved?

Pick your date

Choose a date to host your own dance-athon fundraiser event for Dementia.

Register

Register as fundraiser, create a team or join an existing team. Personalise your fundraising page.

Invite Friends

Invite friends to join your team or event to reach your fundraising goal together!

Get sponsored

Share your team page with your nearest & dearest to sponsor your team! #DanceAgainstDementia

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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.

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 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 ‘cafés’.

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A special thanks to our sponsors

Get ready to dance like nobody’s watching!

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