Principal Investigators
Professor Perminder Sachdev AM, MD, PhD, FRANZCP
Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University of New South Wales
Co-Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)
Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute
Prince of Wales Hospital
Randwick NSW 2031
Email: p.sachdev@unsw.edu.au
Professor Henry Brodaty AO, MD, DSc, FRACP, FRANZCP
Montefiore Scientia Professor of Ageing and Mental Health
Co-Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)
Director, Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration
#302, AGSM, University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Email: h.brodaty@unsw.edu.au
Data Contact
Dr. Darren Lipnicki
Email: d.lipnicki@unsw.edu.au
Summary
| Setting: | Sydney, Australia |
| Start Date: | 2005 |
| End Date: | Ongoing |
| Participants: | 1037 individuals aged 70+ years |
| Assessment Schedule: | 2 year intervals, with intervening year telephonic review |
| Measures: |
(1) Neuropsychiatric assessments assessing dementia, MCI and cognitive decline; (2) Broad range of sociodemographic, lifestyle and cardiac, physical and mental health factors; (3) Blood samples and genotyping; (4) Subgroups with MRI scans (structural and functional) and for studies of falls and balance, inflammatory and metabolic markers, and prospective memory. |
