Kylie Ladd

Kylie Ladd is a freelance writer, clinical neuropsychologist and mother of two, though not always in that order. After completing her PhD in the early detection of dementia she followed her husband to Scotland, had a baby, and was instrumental in setting up the first memory clinic in the country. She then followed her husband to Canada - now with another baby- and took up freelance writing when language regulations prevented her working as a psychologist.

Two years later and sick of the snow her husband followed her back to Melbourne, where they have remained ever since. Her first book, Living with Alzheimer's and other Dementias, was published in 2006, and her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Good Weekend and O magazine, amongst many other newspapers, magazines and websites.

Now juggling private and public practice with freelance writing and motherhood, she doesn't actually have any spare time, but if she did she would say her hobbies were reading and taking deep breaths.