The Koori Growing Old Well Study: Investigating aging and dementia in urban Aboriginal Australians

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1033-1043

  Radford, Kylie ^a,b,c   Mack, Holly A ^a   Robertson, Hamish ^b   Draper, Brian ^a,b,c   Chalkley, Simon ^a,b,c   Daylight, Gail ^d   Cumming, Robert ^a,e   Bennett, Hayley ^a   Jackson Pulver, Lisa ^a,c   Broe, Gerald A ^a,b,c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d SOUTH EASTERN SYDNEY LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; aging; cognitive impairment; dementia; Indigenous health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSENSUS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE HISTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; URBAN AREA; WELLBEING; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84899895687     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610213002561     Document Type: Article

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