No amount of wild weather could stop Olympic Bronze Medalist Owen Wright and 1999 World Surfing Champion Mark Occhilupo from joining Sydney’s property industry executives on Friday 5 April, to surf in support of critical research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias led… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Surfing legends Owen Wright and Mark ‘Occy’ Occhilupo are teaming up with property industry executives to tackle the escalating dementia challenge.
The Australian pro surfers will be hitting Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on 5 April 2024… Read More
HELENA HUDSON | h.hudson@unsw.edu.au
Wipeout Dementia continued its success on Friday 24 March, with 56 surfers from the property industry raising over $224,000 towards critical research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Wipeout Dementia hits $2 million raised on the back of the property industry’s 25 March Bondi Beach event, with 64 heavy hitters raising nearly $350,000 to support critical research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias led by the… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Senior executives across Australia’s property industry and 1999 World Surfing Champion Mark Occhilupo have joined forces to defeat dementia, with more than 50 organisations being represented in what will be the biggest Wipeout Dementia… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
45 heavy hitters from across Australia’s property industry have led the most successful Wipeout Dementia to date, raising over $200,000 for dementia research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney.
The Surf Off event… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
It is estimated that by 2050 the world’s older population will have doubled to 2 billion and, by just 2020, individuals aged above 60 years will have outnumbered children younger than five. Clearly, we have many fundamental and complex… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au.
A group of Sydney surfers aged between 10 and 70 years of age competed in the first ever inter-generational ‘Wipeout Dementia’ at Queenscliff beach on Saturday to raise funds for research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA),… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Pictured: Richard Grellman whose wife Suellen has advanced young onset Alzheimer's disease, with son Ben.
Dementia continues to be one of the biggest global public health challenges faced by modern societies.
With the number of people… Read More
Pictured L-R: Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev AM, Richard Grellman AM & Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty AO.
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Richard Grellman AM has been awarded the University’s highest honour in recognition of his eminent services to both the… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
For the full image gallery, see Wipeout Dementia November 2018 Surf Off.
With people aged 65 and over set to comprise over 20% of the population within the next decade and dementia now the single greatest cause of disability in this… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
Colliers International Residential has raised over $70,000 for the Wipeout Dementia campaign led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW Sydney at their annual Residential Developer’s charity event held on Friday, 7 September… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
A group of Sydney’s senior executives, which included Warringah Federal Liberal MP Tony Abbott, competed in ‘Wipeout Dementia’ at Queenscliff beach on Saturday to raise funds for research at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA),… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
(Pictured L-R: Professor Perminder Sachdev AM, John Teer, Ita Buttrose AO OBE, Professor Henry Brodaty AO, Richard Grellman AM)
How can we confront dementia, the greatest public health challenge in Australia? Understanding modifiable risk… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
For the full image gallery, see Wipeout Dementia November 2017 Surf Off.
In the week of Bill Gates announcing he has decided to join the fight against dementia, senior executives from Sydney's property industry have led the most successful… Read More
