Biomedical Science and Clinical Research(BSCR)

Independent Researcher, Perth WA, Australia

Publications

• Research Article   
  From Knowing to Recognising: When Does Dementia Prevention Evidence Become Personally Relevant? Rethinking the Translation of Dementia Prevention Evidence in Midlife
  Author(s): Peter Carey
  
  The evidence supporting dementia risk reduction has grown rapidly. Current guidance takes a life-course view, bringing together healthy behaviours, management of vascular and metabolic conditions, environmental exposures and, increasingly, multidomain approaches. But having evidence is not the same as making that evidence meaningful to the people who receive it. This conceptual paper examines a point in dementia prevention that is easy to overlook: what happens when population- level evidence reaches an individual and has to be interpreted in the context of everyday life. Awareness, knowledge, health literacy, risk perception, prevention literacy and behavioural intention each describe part of this process. None, however, quite captures the question at the heart of this paper: what does this evidence mean for me, now, and in the circumstances in which I live? The p.. Read More»
  

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