ID #13 'How to' Session:
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Shiraz Room B
Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Shiraz Room B |
Presentation
CogTale: Evaluation, synthesis, dissemination of evidence regarding cognitive interventions for older adults
Presenter(s)
Dr Mary Castellani
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age |The University of Melbourne
CogTale: Evaluation, synthesis, dissemination of evidence regarding cognitive interventions for older adults
2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSummary
Cognitive decline and dementia are among society’s leading concerns, and many seek out strategies to maintain or improve cognitive and day-to-day abilities such as memory and attention. Interest in the potential benefits of non-pharmacological, cognition focused interventions for older adults on the spectrum from health to dementia has rapidly grown over the past two decades. CogTale is an interactive website for the extraction, storage, search, and synthesis of published research on cognition-oriented treatments (COTs) for older adults. The website contains an interactive data entry form covering over 85 variables concerned with a study’s method and results, and this is used by researchers to extract data from eligible articles. This is then used to calculate a) Methodological quality scores, and b) Effect sizes of post-treatment outcomes. Users can browse individual studies of interest, based on selected characteristics, to see quality rating scores, outcome effect sizes, and a plain language summary of the findings suitable for the users without special expertise. The aim of this session is to familiarise neuropsychologists with the CogTale platform, and its functions, via an interactive live demonstration.
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Dr Castellani is a Clinical Neuropsychologist working in private practice part-time, and also as a research assistant at Melbourne University.
Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs
NHMRC Boosting Dementia Leadership Senior Research Fellow, Clinical neuropsychologist
The Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, The University Of Melbourne
CogTale: Evaluation, synthesis, dissemination of evidence regarding cognitive interventions for older adults
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM.....
Alex is a researcher and clinical neuropsychologist specializing in the field of cognitive ageing, and the co-leader of the CITE research group in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Melbourne. His career to date included contributions in the areas of early detection of cognitive decline and dementia, and in recent years, the development and evaluation of non-pharmacological interventions aimed at primary and secondary prevention of cognitive decline and dementia.
Alex obtained his BA in Psychology from Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and a Psychology Honours from the University of Melbourne. He completed a PhD in clinical neuropsychology at Monash University, and postdoctoral training at the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health, and Wellbeing at the Australian National University. In January 2017, Alex Joined the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the University of Melbourne.
Alex’s research contributions have been recognised in the form of several awards, including a Churchill Fellowship, Alzheimer’s Australia Fellowship, as well as Early Career and Dementia Leadership Fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
