Hotspots of dementia risk in Australian communities: an approach to better targeting preventive interventions

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    Description

    This project will develop and apply new methodologies to identify geographical hotspots of dementia risk in local communities and their associations with important socio-demographic, environmental and individual characteristics. This will allow interventions to be targeted at the right place, at the right time, to the right people. This project will provide an innovative tool to help address the predicted dramatic rise of dementia in Australian communities. Despite recent advances in spatial epidemiology and the development of high-resolution dementia risk assessment tools, a real-data approach to mapping dementia risk has never been tried before in Australia – and the benefits will be numerous. The immediate output of the project will be neighbourhood-level maps of risk for dementia, based on the validated ANU-ADRI algorithm using real-world clinical data.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date5/04/1630/06/17

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