CEPAR Chief Investigator Kaarin Anstey, Professor of Psychology at the UNSW Sydney node at NeuRA, is one of a team of investigators to receive government funding for two research projects to implement dementia risk reduction and prevention research.
The research project 'Translating the evidence on dementia risk reduction to generate assessments, advice and training for health professionals, policy makers, patients and public' has received over $1.9 million funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Led by Professor Anstey, the project will run over 5 years. The research team includes CEPAR Associate Investigators Dr Ruth Peters and Dr Kim Kiely.
Professor Anstey is also one of a team of investigators to receive government funding to improve dementia data and methods. The research project 'Improving Australia's Dementia Statistics' received over $2.1 million NHMRC funding, to strengthen Australia's national dementia data assets and capabilities to deliver high quality information and analytic methods for dementia research.
At present, an estimated 425,000 Australians are living with dementia. Without a medical breakthrough, this number is expected to increase to more than one million by 2050.