About the Authors

Ngaire Kerse

n.kerse@auckland.ac.nz

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Leon Flicker

Affiliation Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Jon J. Pfaff

Affiliation Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Brian Draper

Affiliation School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Nicola T. Lautenschlager

Affiliation Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Moira Sim

Affiliation Graduate Higher Degree Systems Program, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Postgraduate Medicine, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

John Snowdon

Affiliation Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Osvaldo P. Almeida

Affiliation Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Competing Interests

BD has received honorariums from Pfizer for giving presentations and workshops at educational meetings. NTL and MS have received honorariums from Pfizer for giving presentations and workshops at educational meetings. JS is a member of the Janssen-Cilag Australian Advisory Board on use of medication in treating people with dementia, has received funding for his attendance at meetings and has been an investigator in studies sponsored by Janssen-Cilag and by AstraZeneca. He has also received financial support (mostly more than 5 years ago) for involvement in or speaking at educational meetings from Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Lundbeck, Wyeth, Organon and other pharmaceutical companies. NK, OA and LF have no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA NK LF JP BD NL MS JS. Performed the experiments: OA NK JP BD. Analyzed the data: OA NK LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OA NL MS JS. Wrote the paper: OA NK LF JP BD NL MS JS.