Professor

Kaarin Anstey

Current Appointments

Senior Principal Research Scientist, Research Advisory Council, Professor of Psychology and Director, UNSW Ageing Futures Institute

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Kaarin Anstey PhD, FAHMS, FASSA, FRSN, FAPS is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Psychology at UNSW, Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, and conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia.

Anstey conducts research in cognitive aging, resilience, dementia epidemiology and risk reduction, and older driver safety. Anstey is a member of the World Dementia Council, Vice Chair of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health and a member of the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for Risk Reduction for Cognitive Decline and Dementia. In 2025 Anstey was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Excellence in Biological and Medical Science.

Publications

2026 Apr

Predicting cognitive decline: Comparative analysis of ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, CogDrisk, LIBRA, LIBRA2, UKBDRS and Lancet based dementia risk scores in the HUNT study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2026.100524

2026, 28 Jan

Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251413126

2026

Modifiable Cognitive Reserve Proxies and Dementia Risk across Socioeconomic Status: Potential Targets for Tailored Intervention in Mid- to Early Late-Life

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6167807

2025 Nov

A critical review and classification of dementia risk assessment tools to inform dementia risk reduction

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100333

2025 Nov

Assessment of dementia risk scores in predicting mild cognitive impairment: A comparison of CogDrisk, CAIDE, LIBRA, and ANU-ADRI

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100324

2025 Nov

Dementia risk prediction: A comparative analysis of the ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, CogDrisk, LIBRA, and LIBRA2 indices in the HUNT study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100326

2025 Sep

Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-025-09389-8

2025, 25 Jul

Variation in real world dementia risk profiles in 6171 adults drawn from the Australian CogDrisk website according to demographic characteristics

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.24.25332109

2025, 01 Jul

Development of a midlife-specific CogDrisk algorithm (CogDrisk-ML) to enable validated implementation of dementia risk assessment from midlife to late life

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf201

2025 Jul

The Combination of Physical Activity and Cognitive Games is Associated With Better Cognitive Performance and Gray Matter Volume in Older Adults

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.70121

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