The International Dementia Conference is a biannual conference that has informed and driven dementia care discussion for more than two decades. Over two dynamic days, global experts, industry leaders and those with lived experience bring the latest complex dementia, palliative care and positive ageing research, practice and insights from around the world to share with the most engaged aged and health care professionals. There are highly-respected speakers, expert panels, a huge range of concurrent sessions and networking opportunities to provoke discussion and inspire action among those committed to improving the care of people living with dementia. The event is run by The Dementia Centre, which was established almost 30 years ago to provide research, education and consultancy in complex dementia care IDC2024: In the Arena When it comes to the theatres of life – whether it’s work or play - there’s a big difference between sitting by the sidelines watching the action and being out on the field. Theodore Roosevelt famously praised the person in the arena - the one 'doing the deed', striving valiantly, who may make mistakes, but who gets up and continues the fight. The International Dementia Conference 2024 will give a platform to those who are bold enough to 'dare greatly' in the difficult arena of complex dementia, palliative care and positive ageing. Check out: - all our expert speakers - what's planned for the program - our huge range of concurrent sessions “It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the ones who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err, who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who do actually strive to do the deeds; who know great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best know in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that their places shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt, 1910