“Brain health”—the emergence of a new healthy construct and its role in everyday life
Findings emphasize the need to critically engage with how dementia prevention discourse is differentially internalized across the life course. Public health strategies should balance behavioral interventions with honest acknowledgement of the structural conditions which stratify distributions of brain health risk and opportunities for prevention.
Authors
- Joyce Siette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9568-5847)
- Gilbert Knaggs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-6104)
- Sonali Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6066-3231)
Institutions
- Australian Institute of Criminology (AU)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (AU)
- Westmead Institute for Medical Research (AU)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Gerontologist
- Published
- 2025-12-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf288
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.47