Publications by authors named "X Dolja-Gore"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores the link between sleep duration, excessive daytime sleepiness, and the risk of developing dementia among older adults.
- Conducted as a longitudinal study with 2,187 participants averaging 70 years old, it classified sleep duration into three categories: long, recommended, and short.
- Findings indicate that long sleep duration significantly increases dementia risk only when combined with excessive daytime sleepiness, highlighting the need for promoting healthy sleep habits to potentially reduce dementia risk.
Article Synopsis
- Vision impairment (VI) and eye diseases like cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may be linked to problems with thinking and memory, but not much research has been gathered about this yet.
- Researchers looked at many studies to see if there is any strong evidence connecting vision issues to dementia and other memory problems.
- They found some suggestive links, particularly between cataracts and Alzheimer's disease, but overall, none of the evidence was super strong or certain.
Objectives: Loneliness is common and becoming a public health concern. Although there is the clear evidence of the variable effect of temporal differences in loneliness (transient/situational and persistent/chronic) on health, their effect on dementia risk is unclear. This study aims to assess the effect of transient/situational and persistent/chronic loneliness on dementia risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The uptake of the health assessment for persons aged 75 years and older (75 + HA) remains low. Repeat assessments provide an opportunity to identify areas of change in cognitive function which may mark the onset of dementia. We aimed to explore general practitioner (GP) and practice nurse experiences of implementing the 75 + HA with a focus on clinical considerations for dementia care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the relationship between long-term physical activity (PA) participation and falls.
Methods: Participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health born 1946-1951 self-reported amounts of PA every 3 years since 1998 (mean age: 54 years, n=11 796). Latent class analysis described profiles of self-reported PA participation over 18 years.