How his dad’s dementia diagnosis transformed this doctor’s future life
Professor Henry Brodaty, the child of Holocaust survivors, became a world-leading researcher and advocate for dementia patients.
Professor Henry Brodaty was a junior medical officer, considering a specialty in neurology or psychiatry, when his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
It was 1972, and his father was just 52.
“It was tragic. My father was a very bright man. He came to Australia in his 20s, having survived the war in Russian labour camps and contracting malaria and typhus and other diseases,” Professor Brodaty told ABC listen on Monday.
“And he and my mother lost a daughter along the way.
