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Advancing Australian public health initiatives targeting dementia risk reduction

Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill‐health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human‐made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initia...

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Autores principales: Siette, Joyce, Taylor, Nathan, Deckers, Kay, Köhler, Sebastian, Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Valenzuela, Michael, Armitage, Christopher J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35235243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13049
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author Siette, Joyce
Taylor, Nathan
Deckers, Kay
Köhler, Sebastian
Braithwaite, Jeffrey
Valenzuela, Michael
Armitage, Christopher J.
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description Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill‐health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human‐made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initiatives targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual and statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success in modifying lifestyle dementia risk factors has led us to fall short in building a successful roadmap to dementia risk reduction. Here we argue for adopting a population‐level, holistic approach to dementia risk reduction strategies across the lifespan. This approach is supplemented by 10 strategies that focus on improving social policies, harnessing existing policy, legislature and incentive schemes, and identifying feasible approaches to increase recreational and transport‐related physical activity to creating best practice health care that supports healthy brain ageing for all.
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spelling pubmed-93149032022-07-30 Advancing Australian public health initiatives targeting dementia risk reduction Siette, Joyce Taylor, Nathan Deckers, Kay Köhler, Sebastian Braithwaite, Jeffrey Valenzuela, Michael Armitage, Christopher J. Australas J Ageing Innovation, Implementation, Improvement Public health initiatives aim to improve health outcomes for populations by preventing disease and ill‐health consequences of environmental hazards and natural or human‐made disasters. Whilst public health initiatives have been used successfully to modify behaviours for chronic diseases, many initiatives targeting reduced dementia risk in older adults suffer from conceptual and statistical flaws that greatly limit their usefulness. The limited success in modifying lifestyle dementia risk factors has led us to fall short in building a successful roadmap to dementia risk reduction. Here we argue for adopting a population‐level, holistic approach to dementia risk reduction strategies across the lifespan. This approach is supplemented by 10 strategies that focus on improving social policies, harnessing existing policy, legislature and incentive schemes, and identifying feasible approaches to increase recreational and transport‐related physical activity to creating best practice health care that supports healthy brain ageing for all. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-02 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9314903/ /pubmed/35235243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.13049 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Australasian Journal on Ageing published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of AJA Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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