澳大利亚顶尖脑健康专家敦促全国预防计划防治痴呆症。 Australia’s top brain health expert urges nationwide prevention program to combat dementia.

Brodaty教授, 以2026年澳大利亚老年人年命名, 正在敦促国家通过一项国家脑健康计划, 将预防行动与“防滑扇耳光”的太阳安全运动相比较。 Professor Henry Brodaty, named Senior Australian of the Year for 2026, is urging the nation to adopt a national brain health program, comparing preventive actions to the "slip slop slap" sun safety campaign. Brodaty在父亲因老年痴呆而早逝的动机下,花了数十年时间推进痴呆症研究,于1985年建立了澳大利亚的第一个记忆诊所,开发了广泛使用的筛查工具,并培训了5,000多名全科医生。 Motivated by his father’s early death from Alzheimer’s, Brodaty has spent decades advancing dementia research, establishing Australia’s first memory clinic in 1985, developing widely used screening tools, and training over 5,000 general practitioners. 他强调,生活方式的改变,如健康饮食和定期锻炼,可以大大降低痴呆症风险,特别是早期开始时。 He emphasizes that lifestyle changes like healthy diet and regular exercise can significantly reduce dementia risk, especially when started early. 超过430 000名澳大利亚人受到影响,痴呆症每年花费超过180亿美元,其中将近一半是由于可变因素造成的,他们主张采取广泛的终生预防战略,以保护大脑健康。 With over 430,000 Australians affected and dementia costing more than $18 billion annually—nearly half due to modifiable factors—Brodaty advocates for widespread, lifelong prevention strategies to protect brain health.