Please join Thomas Holt Villages for a free educational
evening on younger onset dementia:
Understanding Younger Onset Dementia
Professor Brian Draper
Prof. Draper will discuss the unique issues facing people with younger onset
dementia and their families. An overview of the INSPIRED Study will also be
presented (Improving Services for Younger Onset Memory and Related
Disorders).
Who:
St. George and Sutherland Shire GPs, specialists, nurses, allied
health professionals, Residential Aged Care Facility staff, retirement
village staff, and people with younger onset memory and related
disorders and their carers are invited to attend.
When:
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
6:30 p.m. for a 7:00 p.m. start (drinks and appetizers will be served)
Where:
Thomas Holt Villages
Roden Cutler Hall
1-25 Acacia Road North, Sutherland (off Waratah Road)
RSVP:
[email protected] by 14 August 2012
About Prof. Draper: Brian Draper is a Conjoint Professor in the School of Psychiatry at the
UNSW. He has been the Assistant Director of the Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry
at Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals since 1992. He is Deputy Director of the
Dementia Collaborative Research Centre – Assessment and Better Care, and an Honorary Senior
Research Fellow at Neurosciences Research Australia. He is a member of the Medical and
Scientific Advisory Panel for Alzheimer's Disease International. He has published over 200
scientific articles and book chapters, and has published a book for the general public
(‘Understanding Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias’ [2011]).
The INSPIRED Study is funded by the National Health & Medical Research Council, Grant #1008267.
Ethics Review: University of Wollongong and Illawarra
Shoalhaven Local Health District Human Research Ethics
Committee, tel: (02) 4221 3386, approval No.
HE11/007; University of New South Wales Human
Research Ethics Committee.