DEMENTIA – AUSTRALIA

How we die in Australia

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Original article by Shane Wright
The Age – Page: Online : 11-Oct-24

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that the nation recorded a total of 183,131 deaths in 2023. This is more than four per cent lower than the previous calendar, which is primarily due to a sharp fall in the number of deaths from COVID-19. The number of deaths from heart disease – which has been the biggest cause of death in Australia for at least six decades – fell to 16,922. In contrast, the number of deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease rose to 16,685; Lauren Moran from the ABS says current trends suggest that this will become the leading cause of death in Australia in coming years. She cities factors such as the nation’s ageing population and improvements in medical care and treatment.

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Business in fight against dementia

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Original article by Sarah Thompson, James Chessell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 24-Mar-15

The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing’s Dementia Momentum program, to be launched on 24 March 2015, will use "big data" to seek better understanding of dementia. The program is supported by prominent businessmen including McGrathNicol founder Tony McGrath, Anchorage Capital Partners founder Phil Cave, CHAMP Private Equity founder Bill Ferris, and Genworth Mortgage Insurance chairman Richard Grellman. The latter’s wife Suellen suffers from early-onset dementia

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UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. CENTRE FOR HEALTHY BRAIN AGEING, McGRATH NICOL AND PARTNERS SERVICES PTY LTD, ANCHORAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS PTY LTD, CHAMP PRIVATE EQUITY PTY LTD, GENWORTH MORTGAGE INSURANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX GMA, THE GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, KPMG AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WORLD DEMENTIA COUNCIL, DELOITTE ACCESS ECONOMICS PTY LTD

Dementia a personal issue for campaigner

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Original article by Rachel Browne
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 9-Dec-14

Richard Grellman is one of about 30 prominent Australian businesspeople supporting the Dementia Momentum corporate philanthropic endowment. The wife of the AMP Life Insurance, Genworth Mortgage Insurance and Crowe Horwath chair developed young onset Alzheimer’s disease. Another backer of the entity, established to provide funding for research into the affliction, is Anchorage Capital Partners MD Phillip Cave

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DEMENTIA MOMENTUM, AMP LIFE LIMITED, AMP LIMITED – ASX AMP, GENWORTH MORTGAGE INSURANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX GMA, CROWE HORWATH AUSTRALASIA LIMITED – ASX CRH, ANCHORAGE CAPITAL PARTNERS PTY LTD, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. CENTRE FOR HEALTHY BRAIN AGEING, AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Don’t give up on dementia sufferers, says visiting expert

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Original article by Georgina Mitchell
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 8 : 15-Sep-14

A UK dementia expert has urged people to include dementia sufferers in the community. Steve Milton said that most people who are diagnosed early are capable of remaining connected to the community. On 14 September 2014, thousands of people participated in the "Alzheimer’s Australia Memory Walk and Jog" at Leichhardt Oval in Sydney

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One dementia patient on a quest to improve care

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Original article by Nicky Phillips
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 10 : 1-Jul-14

Some 320,000 Australians suffer form various types of dementia. A campaign for improved treatment and services for them is being fought by former civil servant Christine Bryden. At age 65 she remains determined to learn new skills, despite having been diagnosed with early onset dementia in 1995. John Hodges, a leading expert with Neuroscience Research Australia, says Bryden’s case is unusual. She has been featured in an episode of the ABC’s "Australian Story" program

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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TWITTER INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED