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…
New research has come out showing that a group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) may have therapeutic effects for Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr Jack Rivers-Auty and his team have been investigating the impact of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in reducing neuroinflammation. Using mice models Jack and his team have found that the Read more…
Continuing our series of science commentaries Barbora Silarova and Rachel Collins from the Universities of Exeter, UK and UNSW, Australia, consider whether lessons can be learned from other non-communicable diseases… Dementia represents one of the biggest challenges for health and social care this century [1]. Since the development of Read more…
In the second of our series of science commentaries Dr Ruth Peters discusses the methodology, directions and findings used in two recent reviews on dementia prevention. Two recent reviews have approached the question of dementia prevention using very different methodologies and from different directions. The Lancet Commission, ‘dementia prevention, intervention Read more…