Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey

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Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey

Director, UNSW Ageing Futures Institute; ARC Laureate Fellow; Senior Principal Research Scientist, NeuRA; Co-Deputy Director, CEPAR

Professor Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute. She is also co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing as well as a conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. Anstey’s research programs focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing, and dementia. She has developed risk assessment tools interventions to reduce risk of cognitive decline and dementia and conducted epidemiological and data synthesis projects. Anstey currently leads ‘MyCoach’ – a randomised controlled trial of a multidomain intervention for older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline. A second focus of her work is on older driver safety and in this field Anstey has also developed and validated risk assessment tools and interventions. Anstey was a member of the WHO Guideline Development Committee for the Guidelines on Risk Reduction for Cognitive Decline and Dementia and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health.

Dementia: New additions to modifiable risk factors

Learn about the current understanding of risk factors for dementia and how can you differentiate between genetic risk vs lifestyle risk of dementia.

Dementia: New additions to modifiable risk factors

Learn about the current understanding of risk factors for dementia and how can you differentiate between genetic risk vs lifestyle risk of dementia.

By Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey