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Professor

Kaarin Anstey


Current Appointments

Senior Principal Research Scientist
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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

2024, 01 Nov

Development and Validation of the Perceived Interpersonal Relevancy Scales: A New Measure of Perceived Threat, Opportunity, and Invisibility Appraisals for Use Across the Adult Life Course

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae162

2024, 10 Oct

Gender Selectively Mediates the Association Between Sex and Memory in Cognitively Normal Older Adults

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae094

2024, 09 Oct

Ageing and Decision-making: A systematic review and meta-analysis

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.09.24315136

2024 Oct

Impact of type 2 diabetes and its duration on incidence rates of dementia death and medication prescription in the Australian population during 2003–2016

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2024.111795

2024, 30 Sep

Total physical activity matters for brain health

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00712-1

2024 Aug

Evaluation of the effectiveness of three different interventions on older driver safety over a 12-month period: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087137

2024 Jul

Exercise Therapy to Reduce Anxiety (ExTRA) in mid-life and later-life adults: study protocol

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aggp.2024.100064

2024, 01 May

Dementia Prevention and Individual and Socioeconomic Barriers: Avoiding “Lifestyle” Stigma

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad130

2024, 29 Mar

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

2024, 01 Feb

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