The 2021 Dementia Prevention Conference took place on Thursday, 28th October online due to COVID-19 restrictions. Over 350 people registered from across the globe for the event to hear the latest from world-class researchers. Attendees included researchers, consumers, and those with lived experience of dementia.A range of lifestyle factors (diet, Read more…
What do we still need to know in dementia prevention? The IRNDP is helping to highlight gaps in our current knowledge on dementia prevention and directing researchers to the areas where evidence is most lacking. In a recent open access publication international experts worked together to identify and summarise the Read more…
Australian Primary Care professionals who completed an online survey showed existing knowledge of the risk factors for dementia and were able to identify some hurdles that may need to be overcome to more successfully implement dementia risk reduction in Primary Care. This work is now published in the Australian Journal Read more…
The IRNDP Early and Mid-Career committee came together in 2020 to discuss and compare career development opportunities in their respective countries and decided to write a call to action! Their recommendations are now published online in Aging and Mental Health.
IRNDP held its first conference on the 14th and 15th of October, 2019 in Sydney. A big thank you to everyone who attended! There was a fantastic range of speakers from the United States, Canada, Sweden, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia and a massive spread of 140 registered delegates from Denmark, Canada, United States, Sweden, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand Read more…
IRNDP leadership committee members Kaarin Anstey and Ruth Peters were part of a research team that brought together the current information on best practice care for people with dementia in the Primary Care / General Practice context. The research team incorporated the current evidence in dementia care and management into Read more…
We are delighted to announce that the fully open access IRNDP special issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has now been released. The special issue focuses exclusively on dementia prevention and represents a substantial and wide ranging collection of evidence. The issue draws together articles and commentaries from members Read more…
There are so many health benefits from physical activity! We are delighted to announce the release of fact sheets on physical activity and brain health available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Greek and Arabic.
We are delighted to announce that we now have infographics available to illustrate the main modifiable risk factors for dementia available in multiple languages including Spanish and Mandarin. Thanks are due to the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR) Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration for Read more…
Development of WHO Guidelines for risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing an evidence based guideline on dementia risk reduction and in recent months two members of our leadership committee Professor Kaarin Anstey and Dr Ruth Peters along with IRNDP early career Read more…