ArticleAustralasian journal on ageing2022
Advancing Australian public health initiatives targeting dementia risk reduction.
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- Behaviour change techniques used in interventions targeting dementia risk factors amongst older adults in rural and remote areas: A systematic review and meta-analysis.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Pooled it
- Nonpharmacological approaches for pain and symptoms of depression in people with osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analyses.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
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- Involving Societal Stakeholders in Dementia Risk Reduction: An Explorative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
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- Awareness, facilitators, barriers, and behaviours surrounding brain health: a large-scale cross-sectional survey of adults across UK and Ireland.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Coping with cognitive decline in older adults with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia: a scoping review.Aging & mental health · 2025Article
- Overview and Regional Context of Alzheimer's Disease in the Middle East and North Africa Region.Cureus · 2025Review
- Insights for dementia risk reduction among lower SES adults in OECD countries: scoping review of interventions targeting multiple common health risk factors.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Acceptability and fidelity of the multidomain 'Brain Bootcamp' dementia risk reduction program: a mixed-methods approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Parental acceptance of brain health programs for preschool children: a mixed-methods study exploring barriers, facilitators and future approaches.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- "Establishing healthy habits and lifestyles early is very important": parental views of brain health literacy on dementia prevention in preschool and primary school children.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- An online, public health framework supporting behaviour change to reduce dementia risk: interim results from the ISLAND study linking ageing and neurodegenerative disease.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Cross-sectional survey of attitudes and beliefs towards dementia risk reduction among Australian older adults.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Older adults' perspectives towards optimizing lifestyle behaviors and strategies to support healthy brain ageing during COVID-19 restrictions.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Progressing dementia risk reduction initiatives for culturally and linguistically diverse older adults in Australia.Australasian journal on ageing · 2022Article
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Abstract
Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill-health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human-made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initiatives targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual and statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success in modifying lifestyle dementia risk factors has led us to fall short in building a successful roadmap to dementia risk reduction. Here we argue for adopting a population-level, holistic approach to dementia risk reduction strategies across the lifespan. This approach is supplemented by 10 strategies that focus on improving social policies, harnessing existing policy, legislature and incentive schemes, and identifying feasible approaches to increase recreational and transport-related physical activity to creating best practice health care that supports healthy brain ageing for all.
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