Team CHeBA proudly promoted positive ageing in the 2014 City 2 Surf with team members in their 60s, 70s and 80s.
58 people challenged themselves to the hilly and scenic course for CHeBA, helping Co-Directors Professors Perminder Sachdev and Henry Brodaty in their quest to… Read More
CHeBA's Sydney Centenarian Study participant, Mrs Joan Philips, decided to write her memoirs entitled While her children swung from the chandelier at age 95 in response to her granddaughter's question "What was it like in the olden days?"
Born towards the end of World… Read More
The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW has been awarded one of two $50,000 cheques given by the Dick Smith Foods Foundation in their "1 million to charity" competition.
Recently Dick and Pip Smith gave the total intellectual property for Dick Smith Foods to a new… Read More
The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW has joined forces with Genworth in an effort to help change the future of ageing through a series of public forums promoting strategies for better brain health.
On 24thJuly, nearly 600 people packed the John Clancy auditorium… Read More
A report released today by Alzheimer’s Australia and the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), Is the Incidence of Dementia Declining?, suggests that action on preventative health could lower the risk of dementia for future generations.
Professor Perminder Sachdev, author of… Read More
The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, recently co-hosted the inaugural Neuropsychiatry Training Weekend over the 14th and 15th of March. By all accounts, the event was a great success with the majority of… Read More
Last year, 47 people ran the City 2 Surf for the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and raised a whopping $29,000 for our research, placing CHeBA firmly in the Top Ten Team Fundraisers for 2013.
Team CHeBA included our CHeBA Champions - the Fitness Ambassadors for the… Read More
Each year UNSW Australia celebrates the diverse achievements of staff with a suite of awards from the Dean and the Vice-Chancellor. These awards acknowledge researchers and members of staff who have accomplished outstanding success in their respective field of professional… Read More
This year the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) partnered with POWH Aged Care Psychiatry to deliver a public forum to address some of the issues of the ageing brain and promote maintenance of the brain for a healthier life.
Over 530 people packed the auditorium at The… Read More
This year the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) partnered with POWH Aged Care Psychiatry to deliver a public forum to address some of the issues of the ageing brain and promote maintenance of the brain for a healthier life.
Over 530 people packed the auditorium at The… Read More
A panel of experts in the field of dementia care have called for an urgent national approach to the diagnosis and care of people with dementia given the critical shortage in Australia's dementia care workforce, following the finding of a new report launched on 12 November 2013… Read More
HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au
It is said that PJ Lane has showbiz in his genes. At age 11, PJ was awarded a Performing Arts Scholarship at The Scots College, Sydney. He won a basketball scholarship to a College in Connecticut where he minored in music. With a Dean’… Read More
Global population ageing with the associated increase in age-related mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and dementia pose a significant challenge worldwide.
The International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) is the only interdisciplinary and international organisation… Read More
The Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) at UNSW and Tapestry Pty Ltd have announced they have joined forces to tackle the issues of an ageing population and promote positive ageing.
Research indicates that various forms of social engagement play an important role in… Read More
The over-prescription of antipsychotic medication to people with dementia in care will be targeted in a new million-dollar research project led by UNSW researchers.
Headed up by UNSW Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty, the project will receive Federal Government funding under its… Read More
