PROF Henry Brodaty, co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, was awarded last week for lifetime service to dementia research and care at the 2024 Australian Dementia Research Forum.
Brodaty is responsible for the establishment of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Society in NSW in 1982, which grew into Dementia Australia, and sparked a global movement, Alzheimer's Disease International, which includes 120 national associations.
Reflecting on his career, the lifetime award winner said, "it's been an incredible journey and one which continues to excite me".
"The community is hungry for news, especially as our population ages," said Brodaty.
"And today, when for the first time those aged over 64 outnumber children aged under 15, more of us are worried," he added.
"Dementia is such a superb paradigm for the complexity of healthcare, and clinicians, researchers, aged care providers and policy makers need to grapple with medical, psychiatric, social, policy and economic issues," said Brodaty.
"Those affected are grateful for the help we can give them and for the research that may benefit them and their children and grandchildren."
Brodaty has published over 800 papers and book chapters, receiving numerous accolades, including the Order of Australia in 2000 as well as the International Ryman Prize in 2016.
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