Is Dementia an Inevitable Part of Ageing?
New Ideas in Ageing Podcast - S1E5
About the episode
If you listened to the first episode of this podcast, you will already be familiar with Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey - who introduced us to this whole big topic of ageing.
In this episode we narrow down and focus on a subject on which Professor Anstey is extremely eminent and that is dementia. In fact, she’s the first Australian academic to be appointed to the . Kaarin will provide insights into dementia as we age - and help us find an answer to the big question is dementia an inevitable part of ageing?
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About the expert
Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the Ʊ Ageing Futures Institute. She is also co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing as well as a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, and dementia. A second focus is on older driver risk assessment and safety.
About our host
is a Sydney-based writer, editor and communications professional with a special interest in ageing. She is co-chair of the NSW Division of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) and was founding editor of Australian Ageing Agenda.