Hard Topics, soft landings.
Why We’re Here
If you are navigating dementia in midlife - balancing a career, parenting, mortgages, or university while caring for a partner or a parent - it can feel like you’re navigating the journey alone.
Traditional support isn’t always designed for your life stage, your schedule, or your social world.
The DCSC curates evenings that look nothing like a waiting room, run by people who take your journey seriously. They’re the least clinical thing a dementia organisation has ever put on, and that is exactly the point.
Led by Lived Experience & Research
Our project lead is a dementia researcher at UNSW and a daughter navigating her own father’s dementia journey.
We bridge clinical expertise with real-world lived experience, partnering with peak bodies like Dementia Australia and local venues to make our communities genuinely dementia-friendly from the ground up.
The club honours our founder’s dad’s favourite underground jazz supper club—The Sapphire—in Boise, Idaho. Even with dementia, he still dresses up, dances, and claims his VIP spot with his wife every single month.
Inspired by that warm, intimate 1960s energy, we curate gatherings for dementia care VIPs, completely rejecting the textbook aesthetic of a support group held at a local library or RSL.
“It feels like a ray of hope. It allows me to socialise and laugh, meet new people, and re-examine my own journey.”
— Person living with younger onset dementia
Our Mission
Translate complex research into language families can actually use right now.
Provide practical tools for real, immediate, everyday situations.
Reframe support as empowerment, dignity, and celebration. Not rescue.
Build genuine peer connections that extend far beyond a monthly session.