Data-driven lifestyle patterns and risk of dementia in older Australian women.

Introduction: Many lifestyle factors have been associated with dementia, but there is limited evidence of how these group together. The aim of this study was to examine the clustering of lifestyle behaviors and associations with dementia.

Methods: This population-based study included 9947 older Australian women.

Do health assessments affect time to permanent residential aged care admission for older women with and without dementia?

Aim: To investigate the effect of health assessments on permanent residential aged care admission for older Australian women with and without dementia.

Methods: A total of 1427 older Australian women who had a health assessment between March 2002 and December 2013 were matched with 1427 women who did not have a health assessment in the same period. Linked administrative datasets were used to identify health assessment use, admission to permanent residential aged care, and dementia status.

Patterns of Labour Interventions and Associated Maternal Biopsychosocial Factors in Australia: a Path Analysis.

In Australia, nearly half of births involve labour interventions. Prior research in this area has relied on cross-sectional and administrative health data and has not considered biopsychosocial factors. The current study examined direct and indirect associations between biopsychosocial factors and labour interventions using 19 years of population-based prospective data.

Understanding the relationship between eye disease and driving in very old Australian women: a longitudinal thematic evaluation.

Background: Over recent decades an increasing number of adults will retain their driver's licenses well into their later years. The aim of this study was to understand and explore the experience of driving and driving cessation in very old Australian women with self-reported eye disease.

Methods: An interpretative qualitative study.

The experience of delayed health care access during the COVID 19 pandemic in Australian women: A mixed methods exploration.

Delayed health care access is a potential collateral effect of pandemic conditions, health rationing strategies and social distancing responses. We investigated experiences of delayed health care access in Australian women during COVID-19. A mixed methods study used quantitative and free-text data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health COVID-19 survey 4 (health care access or delay).

Use of medical services by older Australian women with dementia: a longitudinal cohort study.

Objective: To assess the use of Medicare-subsidised health services by women with and without dementia.

Methods: Data from women of the 1921-26 birth cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health were linked to various administrative datasets to ascertain dementia diagnosis. The use of subsidised general practitioner (GP) services (75+ health assessments [HAs], chronic disease management meetings [CDMs], multidisciplinary case conferences [MCCs]) and specialist and allied health services between 2000 and 2013 for these women was analysed using longitudinal GEE models.

The impact of adverse childhood experiences on the health and health behaviors of young Australian women.

Background: Adverse childhood experiences have been linked to poor health and adverse health behavior in adulthood.

Objective: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences among young Australian women (aged 20-25) and examine associations between adverse childhood experiences and adult health behaviors and physical and mental health.

Participants And Settings: Data were from the 1989-95 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, who completed the Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale at Survey 3 in 2015 (N = 8609).

Common combinations of medications used among oldest-old women: a population-based study over 15 years.

Background: Older people use many medications, but combinations of medications used among the oldest old (≥ 80 years) are not commonly reported.

Aims: This study aimed to determine common combinations of medications used among women aged 77-96 years and to describe characteristics associated with these combinations.

Methods: A cohort study of older women enroled in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health over a 15-year period was used to determine combinations of medications using latent class analysis.

Alcohol-related risk from pre-loading and heavy episodic drinking (HED) among a cohort of young Australian women: a cross-sectional analysis.

Objective: To cross-sectionally examine heavy episodic drinking (HED) and pre-loading with alcohol among young Australian women in relation to the alcohol-induced adverse outcomes of memory loss, vomiting and injury.

Methods: A total of 7,800 participants, aged 20-25 years, from the 1989-95 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health answered all questions on alcohol use, reported drinking alcohol in the previous year and were not pregnant at the third survey in 2015. Log-binomial models were used to estimate prevalence ratios for adverse outcomes associated with increased frequency of HED and pre-loading.