A pioneering Tasmanian learning centre is proof not just of growing concerns about the rate and impact of dementia but of a real thirst for information about it.

Could the Holy Grail in dementia research be to not to try to find a cure, but to find ways to prevent its onset?

For Professor Craig Ritchie, the Holy Grail of dementia research is not to find a cure, but to find ways to significantly delay and ultimately prevent its onset. Listen to his keynote speech from the 2015 Wicking Symposium Public Lecture.

Listen in full to the Inaugural Wicking Public Lecture, with special guest speaker Professor Craig Ritchie, Psychiatry of Ageing, University of Edinburgh, Leader of the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) project in Europe. (1:25:22)

Equity Trustees distributed more than $70m in the 2015 financial year on behalf of the charitable trusts and foundations for which it is trustee following the wishes and directions of their founders.

With people living longer there has been a massive increase in the number of people with dementia which is now being thought of as the end stage of brain failure. But can we prevent dementia by reducing the risk of brain failure?

Equity Trustees, managers of the Cicely & Colin Rigg Bequest, the charitable trust supporting the triennial Rigg Design Prize, congratulates Adam Goodrum for receiving the 2015 Prize.