
David Ward
@david_d_ward
Research fellow in ageing and geriatric medicine at @UQ_CHSR. Interested in ageing, frailty and preventing dementia.
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https://chsr.centre.uq.edu.au/ 13-11-2018 11:00:17
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Super! Well done Prof Jane Alty and WickingDementiaCentre team!

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Very grateful to be a 2025 recipient of Dementia Australia Research Foundation's Project Grant ๐ With colleagues at University of Tasmania WickingDementiaCentre, I'll be looking at co-designing an interactive dashboard to communicate biological and digital markers of dementia risk Links below ๐

Well done Eddy Roccati! Sounds like a fantastic project.

Jurgen Claassen UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Chk out "Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus" acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:scโฆ


RESEARCH ARTICLE: Impact of Frailty on Antihypertensive Treatment in Older Adults David Ward Nicole Ee: @- ahajrnls.org/4bGAKs2



Data from 4 cohorts : "Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39527039/ Bruno Vellas Johns Hopkins Frailty Science #FrailtyFighter Global Frailty Network Cognitive Frailty Network Frailty Research CFN Acute Frailty Network

New Research: Delirium in Hip Fracture Patients Associated with Doubled Mortality Risk I'm pleased to share our new study on delirium and hip fracture, led by Rose Penfold. 91% of all hip fracture patients attending Scottish hospitals had a 4AT delirium assessment tool

