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Open AccessEfforts to address the Sustainable Development Goals in older populations: a sco** review
The United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030) seeks to create multisectoral changes that align healthy ageing with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given that the SDGs have comp...
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Open AccessConceptualising public mental health: development of a conceptual framework for public mental health
Numerous determinants have been linked to public mental health; however, they have not been brought together in a comprehensive conceptual framework. The goal of this work was to bring together academic resear...
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Open AccessDevelo** Age-Friendly Cities: an Evidence-Based Evaluation Tool
Recent years have seen a proliferation of initiatives aimed at enhancing the age-friendliness of urban settings. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) global Age-Friendly Cities (AFC) programme has been centra...
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Open AccessPsychological interventions for people with psychotic experiences: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Many people who have common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, also have some psychotic experiences. These experiences are associated with higher clinical complexity, poor treatment response, an...
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Open AccessOpportunities and challenges in public and community engagement: the connected for cognitive health in later life (CHILL) project
Two goals of public health research are to understand what causes disease and ill health, and what can be done to prevent it. To develop appropriate and effective actions, we need to know what resources are av...
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Erratum: Dementia: Dementia prevention — a call for contextualized evidence
Nature Reviews Neurology 13, 579–580 (2017) In the printed version of this article, the 'published online' date was given as 28 September 2017. However, because of a technical problem, the article was actually...
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Dementia prevention — a call for contextualized evidence
The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care has evaluated current evidence on dementia management, including the measures that can be taken to reduce an individual's risk of dementia. How...
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Open AccessExploring attitudes and preferences for dementia screening in Britain: contributions from carers and the general public
Dementia is becoming one of the most important emerging public health concerns in a generation. In societal approaches to the mitigation of major disease ‘burden’, population screening can sometimes provide an...
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Open AccessAttitudes and preferences towards screening for dementia: a systematic review of the literature
Population screening might provide a mechanism to enable early detection of dementia. Yet the potential benefits, harms or acceptability of such a large-scale intervention are not well understood. This researc...
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Open AccessTrauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy versus treatment as usual for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in young children aged 3 to 8 years: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Following horrific or life-threatening events approximately 10 to 15% of young children develop post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The symptoms of this disorder are distressing - nightmares, flashbacks, an...
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Variation Over Time in the Association between Polypharmacy and Mortality in the Older Population
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Open AccessHealth status transitions in community-living elderly with complex care needs: a latent class approach
For older persons with complex care needs, accounting for the variability and interdependency in how health dimensions manifest themselves is necessary to understand the dynamic of health status. Our objective...
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Open AccessQuality of life in multiple sclerosis: translation in French Canadian of the MSQoL-54
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease which runs its course for the remainder of the patient's life frequently causing disability of varying degrees. Negative effects on Health-related quality...
