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Kaarin Anstey
Current Appointments
Senior Principal Research ScientistKey Research Areas
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Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor at UNSW, and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA. She is Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, leads an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health, is a director of the NHMRC Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research. Kaarin conducts public health research into dementia risk reduction ranging from analysis of cohort studies, development of risk assessment tools, and conducting risk reduction trials. A second focus is on older driver risk assessment and safety. Kaarin leads the PATH Through Life Project, a large cohort study focusing on common mental disorders and cognitive function. She chairs the International Research Network on Dementia Prevention and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health, an initiative supported by the American Association of Retired Persons.
Publications
2023, 24 Sep
Dementia prevention and individual and socioeconomic barriers: Avoiding “lifestyle” stigma
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad130
2023, 06 Jul
A Technology-Enriched Approach to Studying Microlongitudinal Aging Among Adults Aged 18 to 85 Years: Protocol for the Labs Without Walls Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/47053
2023, 03 Jun
Who displays dementia-related stigma and what does the general public know about dementia? Findings from a nationally representative survey
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2040428
2023, 30 May
A Scoping Review of Workplace Interventions to Promote Positive Attitudes Toward Older Workers and Reduce Age-Based Discrimination
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waad013
2023, 29 Apr
Navigating Community-Based Aged Care Services From the Consumer Perspective: A Scoping Review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad017
2023, 30 Mar
The feasibility of a multidomain dementia risk reduction randomised controlled trial for people experiencing cognitive decline: the Body, Brain, Life for Cognitive Decline (BBL-CD)
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2190083
2023, 15 Mar
Frequency of coexistent eye diseases and cognitive impairment or dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02481-4
2023, 06 Mar
A Technology-Enriched Approach to Studying Microlongitudinal Aging Among Adults Aged 18 to 85 Years: Protocol for the Labs Without Walls Study (Preprint)
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.47053
2023, 01 Mar
Residential aged care staff perceptions and responses towards neuropsychiatric symptoms: a mixed methods analysis of electronic healthcare records
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2032597
2022 Dec
No clear associations between subjective memory concerns and subsequent change in cognitive function: the PATH through life study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00694-2
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