Velandai Srikanth

Professor, Peninsula Clinical School, Director, National Centre for Healthy Ageing Velandai.Srikanth@monash.edu

Biography

Velandai is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, and has been the recipient of continuous fellowships from the NHMRC and the Heart Foundation over the past 10 years. His program of research spans several aspects of ageing health. His primary interest is in the study of risk factors and mechanisms underlying dementia, particularly with respect to vascular and metabolic health. He has also led the field in the study of the impact of brain ageing on impaired mobility and the risk of falls, and in the link between brain ageing, gait and cognition. He actively collaborates in large scale initiatives in the genetics of brain ageing and risk stratification for the secondary prevention of stroke.

articles

An elderly woman sits at a kitchen bench, with another women looking over her shoulder.

How we can build better at-home aged care

There are many innovations that can bridge the gap for better support and care for older Australians in their home.

Medicine and health

The dreaded ‘D’ word: Will we ever cure dementia?

There’s no one “thing” we can blame for causing dementia, and why it’s so hard to find that silver bullet to stop it – particularly at older ages.

Medicine and health

A link between gait and dementia

There's far more to the way we walk than we first thought, including it being a possible early indicator of dementia.

Medicine and health