The Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre has received almost $4 million to support an expansion of it dementia literacy programs. The funds will help undertake evaluations and clinical trials to the programs’ community impact.
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The new funding was provided by the Wicking Trust, founded by the late John and Janet Wicking, and was administered through Equity Trustees.
Wicking Centre co-director Professor James Vickers said the funds would support a research program which would assess the knowledge of dementia in thousands of people. Professor Vickers said it would also support trials to ascertain how the centre’s Massive Open Online Courses benefit people with dementia and their carers. Other research will look at new ways to reduce individual risk of dementia. The Wicking Centre has delivered dementia education to more than 80,000 over the past nine years.
The centre is a part of the University of Tasmania’s Faculty of Health.
