Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Kaarin J Anstey

Biography

Kaarin J. Anstey is a Professor of Psychology and Population Health at the Australian National University and an ANU Public Policy Fellow.  Anstey is Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing and Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, Early Diagnosis and Prevention and an Adjunct Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Her substantive research interests focus on the prevention of cognitive decline, cognitive impairment and dementia. Anstey has worked extensively with longitudinal studies and leads the PATH Through Life study, a 16-year population-based study of three cohorts, including over 7000 adults, spanning early to late adulthood. Anstey is also involved in several interventions to prevent cognitive decline and reduce risk of dementia. She led the first online dementia risk reduction intervention and the development and validation of the first online risk assessment tool for Alzheimer’s tool that uses only self-report measures. Anstey is a Director of the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation, a member of the NHMRC Knowledge Translation Faculty, Dementia Steering Group, and a member of the NHMRC Guidelines Adaptation Committee for Dealing with Cognitive and Related Functional Decline in Older People. Anstey has advised the Human Rights Commission, the NSW Government, and Industry on issues relating to older drivers.  She has served on the ACT Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing, and advised on the ACT Strategic Plans on Ageing, Age Friendly Cities, and the Older Persons’ Assembly. Anstey is a member of the Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons of the United States Transport Research Board of the United States National Academies.

Research Interest

 cognitive ageing, midlife cognition, wellbeing, longitudinal studies