Claude Timbery with his daughter, Alison Timbery in La Perouse, Sydney. Claude is participating in the Koori Growing Old Well Study, into the effect of childhood trauma on increasing the likelihood of dementia. Alison is a research assistant on the project by Neuroscience Reearch Australia. Photo: Janie Barrett
LIKE his seven surviving siblings, 76-year-old Claude Timbery is sharp and enjoying life with no sign of dementia. Other than a "pair of dicky knees", he has few health problems and enjoys the weekly "yarn up" at the local Aboriginal community centre.
But Mr Timbery's in-laws weren't as fortunate. Far too many have developed dementia including Alzheimer's. His daughter Alison Timbery said she had a cousin whose mother developed dementia who had been part of the stolen generations: "[My aunt>[/embedp>
