📢 Calling all ISTAART members! Shape the future of your Professional Interest Areas (PIAs) by participating in the 2024 PIA Elections.

Cast your vote today and have your say in the leadership of your PIA! 🗳️🌟

Vote now at alz.surveymonkey.com/r/2024PIAelect

Congratulations to our SDN members Dr Edwin Tan and Dr Jacqueline Wesson on receiving crucial funding to carry out such important work!

New webinar on Dementia & Social Cognition! Part 1: Social cognition & dementia- Warning signs & interventions & Part 2: Social determinants of health in ageing & dementia – an overview of current research direction. When: March 21st | 4-5pm AEST
Register buff.ly/4bKcUuX

ADRF ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO 10 FEBRUARY 2024. Submit today to present your work, theories and discoveries with Australia’s top dementia scientists and researchers. SUBMIT TODAY ➡️ buff.ly/3vzUX1z Register for early bird tickets ➡️ buff.ly/4aKYtGB

CHeBA Visiting Lecture Series: Professor Jaime Miranda. :Dealing with global inequity in dementia prevention research: lessons for low- and middle-income countries'. Date and time
Thu, 9 Nov 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM AEDT buff.ly/46l8urx UNSW UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)

Join the ADNeT Early-Mid Career Researcher Group for their next webinar 'The journey from postdoc to principal investigator'. A fantastic selection of esteemed speakers from Aus & the UK sharing their knowledge of becoming independent researchers. When: 31st October, from 5pmAEST

There's still time to register for online tickets to the FRONTIER 2023 Carer Information Day on 25th September! Join us for talks on art therapy, positive behaviour support, motor symptoms in FTD, communication, and more: bit.ly/carerday2023
Brain & Mind Centre #endFTD

Just launched: Face Dementia our timely diagnosis of dementia campaign:
🧠Know the signs of #dementia
💬Talk to family about any concerns
👩‍⚕️Ask your GP for an assessment
💊🧑‍⚕️Get treatments and supports
facedementia.au/en/ for Checklist of Symptoms

Did you know we could potentially reduce or delay the number of cases of dementia by up to 40% with risk reduction strategies? Lifestyle & societal changes play a big role in this. Let's take action and potentially reduce our risk of developing dementia! bit.ly/3L4hQ25

Run, Profs Piguet & Ballard, run!! Profs Olivier Piguet & KirrieBallard are running the #City2Surf on 13th Aug to raise funds for frontotemporal dementia. All proceeds go to AFTDA. Support the cause, make a difference! 🎉🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ city2surf23.grassrootz.com/australian-fro… #endFTD Brain & Mind Centre

If you haven't already registered now's the time ⬇️
@cogsleep presents:

💤Harnessing the Power of Sleep for Healthy Brain Ageing 💤

With Sharon Naismith, Professor Ron Grunstein, Simon Lewis & Sophie Scott

Register here-> bit.ly/CogSleep23

20th September 6-8pm

Applications for our Sydney Horizon Fellowships must be in by 11:59pm on Wednesday 5 July 2023 AEST.

They are open to the world’s best and brightest emerging academics across all disciplines.

Help us solve the greatest global challenges and advance your career.

Apply now:…

🚨 Dementia Australia Grants Program - Now Open! 🚨

Join us this Fri 30th June 12-2PM for our webinar covering this year’s grant call. An expert panel, including previous recipients will share their strategies and insights. Q&A will follow. Register here: bit.ly/dainfosess

🎉📢Congratulations to Professor Glenda Halliday, one of the world's leading neuroscientists-appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for foundational work on neurodegenerative diseases #Parkinsons

Read 🕮 bit.ly/KingsBirthdayH…

Sydney Health University of Sydney DrugDiscoveryInitiative

Congratulations to Claire O'Callaghan on receiving a Robinson fellowship.

📖📢Read online now-> bit.ly/RobinsonFellow

Sydney Dementia Network, University of Sydney, Sydney Health

🚨 Dementia Australia Grant Information Session 🚨

Join us Fri 30th June 12-2 PM for our webinar covering the upcoming 2023 grant call. An expert panel, including previous recipients will share their strategies and insights. Q&A will follow. Register here:bit.ly/dainfosess

Wonderful to see the incredible work of our ECRs reported and communicated in this way! Congratulations too all involved! Shawn Kong Andrew McKinnon Ph.D.

The ADNeT Clinical Quality Registry Annual Report 2022 is officially launched. Read more here and access the report and key findings infographic. australiandementianetwork.org.au/2023/05/31/aus…

If nothing changes, 1 in 2 of us will see our lives devastated by dementia. Either by caring for someone with the condition, developing it ourselves, or both.

This is why we exist. We're leading the search #ForACure 🟧

Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2m76pk5e

Dementia Training Australia is delivering:
✅ Accredited, free dementia care courses to eligible workers
✅ CPD training on dementia assessment, diagnosis & management
✅ On-site training to aged care providers
✅ An online training portal

Visit: 💻 health.gov.au/our-work/demen…