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Hearing loss, social isolation and depression in participants aged 50 years or over in Tasmania, Australia

The effects of corrected vs. uncorrected hearing loss on social support, social isolation, anxiety and depression are explored in this study.
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Loneliness and social isolation correlate with multiple modifiable risk factors for chronic diseases including dementia

Loneliness and social isolation are risk factors for chronic diseases including dementia, but the pathways of influence are not yet clear. Levels of risk for nine modifiable health risk…
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Trait mindfulness: a potential health asset?

With the incidence of preventable chronic diseases on the rise, it is vital to understand factors that support ageing well. Trait mindfulness is a positive psychological resource that may offer…
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Anxiety and Anxiety‐Related Inconsistency Impacts the Modifiable Risk and Risk Behaviors for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

This work explores the association between anxiety and the modifiable ADRD risk and risk‐associated behaviors of community‐dwelling older adults by exploring the association between anxiety and the modifiable ADRD risk and risk‐associated behaviors of community‐dwelling older adults.
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Intervening paths: A dual networks approach to modifiable dementia risk in healthy older adults

Applying an emerging method, candidates for targeted intervention are revealed using partial correlation and direct‐path machine‐learned networks to identify targets of intervention which influence modifiable dementia risks.
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Tasmanian ISLAND Sleep Study: prodromal neurodegenerative disease (iRBD) is associated with subjective reports of daytime sleepiness and poor sleep quality

This research aims to investigate sleep quality in iRBD and hypothesise that people with probable iRBD (pwpRBD) will report poorer sleep quality, compared to healthy controls.
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Psychosocial Hierarchies of Modifiable Risk for Alzheimers Disease: A Networks Analysis

This dual-network framework highlights upstream psychosocial factors statistically associated with multiple ADRD-related risks and suggests targeting stress and coping may offer broad, cascading, benefits for ADRD risk reduction.
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ISLAND Campus: a fee-free formal university educational intervention in mid- to later-life to reduce modifiable risk factors for dementia and improve cognition

It is shown how free later-life university education was associated with improvements in modifiable dementia risk factors over time and cognition, and later life formal educational interventions should be targeted at individuals with lower prior education.
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Development of a smartphone screening test for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and validation across the dementia continuum

The precision of TapTalk will be established to identify preclinical AD and estimate risk of cognitive decline, and this innovative smartphone app will enable low-cost, accessible screening of individuals for AD risk.
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Unsupervised online reaction time test improves estimation of cognitive function in a large sample of cognitively‐asymptomatic older adults

This study evaluated how home‐based reaction time tests predict cognitive performance in a sample of cognitively asymptomatic older adults.
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