The leading hypothesis on the cause of Alzheimer’s is looking shaky, following a new paper that pooled data from several studies to find that strategies to reduce amyloid levels in the brain do not improve cognition.[1]The Amyloid Hypothesis For several decades, a...
Dementia Training Australia (DTA) provides dementia-specific accredited and non-accredited education, training, and professional development for aged and health care professionals. Our mission is to improve the knowledge and skills of the workforce who are involved in...
I first became aware of dementia research at an Alzheimer’s Australia conference some 10 years ago, when a Consumer Dementia Research Network (CDRN) was formed. There were about 25 people, with Glen Rees and his team. Many were people living with dementia, and others...
Jane Thompson, a member of StepUp for Dementia Research Public Involvement Panel, appeared on an episode "I still do" of the SBS program Insight. Jane shared her story about her marriage and her experience caring for her husband with dementia. Please click this link...
Enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a mandated human right.[1] However, the daily confinement of people living with dementia in care homes may challenge this mandate. A team of researchers from NSW Australia, including the...
In 2017 I participated in the 32nd International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International in Kyoto, Japan. There, I heard a presentation on Join Dementia Research, a UK’s national service which allows the public to easily take part in research opportunities and...
By Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty AOCo-Director Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney and Director, Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration Having been a professor of ageing and mental health for over 30 years, I know intimately how costly it is...
Researchers from the University of Leeds investigated the association between meat consumption and risk of dementia using the Biobank cohort [1]. Almost 500,000 UK adults participated in the study, which found that consuming a 25g of processed meat (bacon, ham,...
Tele-CBT: Telehealth Psychotherapy for Anxiety in Persons with Cognitive Impairment Researchers at the Dementia and Neuro Mental Health Research Unit at The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) are looking for participants living with...
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