Publications by authors named "Mary Ann Geronimo"

Article Synopsis
  • Many immigrant family carers, especially in Australia’s multicultural society, face significant health disadvantages and lower quality of life compared to non-immigrant carers.
  • A study was conducted with 649 family carers to compare health profiles, revealing CALD carers are generally younger, more educated, but have lower weekly care hours than non-CALD carers.
  • Results showed both groups had poor physical and mental health indicators, but non-CALD carers reported higher depressive symptoms, indicating a need for tailored support systems for diverse communities.
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Introduction: Ethnicity influences dementia etiology, prognosis, and treatment, while culture shapes help-seeking and care. Despite increasing population diversity in high-income settlement countries, ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in dementia research. We investigated approaches to enhance the recruitment, and consistent collection and analysis of variables relevant to, ethnic minorities in dementia studies to make recommendations for consistent practice in dementia research.

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Objective: To consider the challenges of communicating COVID-19 directives to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, and present evidence-based solutions to influence policy and practice on promoting relevant health behaviours; to advance participatory research methodologies for health behaviour change. Type of program or service: We present a case study of a participatory research collaboration between CALD community leaders and health behaviour change scientists during the COVID-19 crisis. The goal was to better understand the role of community leaders in shaping health behaviours in their communities and how that role might be leveraged for better health outcomes.

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