Without a medical breakthrough, it is likely that Australia's population with dementia will surpass one million people by the middle of the century. Change for future generations depends largely on research.
DPAU is reshaping dementia research by hosting data from international longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of brain ageing with the mission of transforming the epidemiology of ageing and dementia.
Making data available via DPAU will ensure the generous contribution of time given by research participants will continue to yield new clues to the causes of dementias.
DPAU is currently supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), with funding partnerships available.
DPAU is led by UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and established in partnership with Monash Secure eResearch Platform (SeRP) and Dementias Platform UK (DPUK).
We perform data curation following the well-established DPUK cohort data ontology that simplifies the analysis of multiple datasets and improves data accessibility for researchers.
The objective of DPAU is to support researchers to access cohort data from multiple studies and enable new insights into ageing, ageing-related diseases and dementia risk.
The DPAU team come from various backgrounds across research and health informatics; all sharing the same passion for dementia research and generating scientific outcomes.
