Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent form of dementia. This is a term used to describe a range of symptoms linked to the decline in brain function with age.
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Care facilities are often considered a last resort in South Africa. Personal care is assumed to be provided by family and household members.
We found that the key factors behind poor cognitive function were related to levels of education, being a woman, marital status and being poor.
Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
Research done over the past 26 years
provides insights into changes across people’s lives, helps evaluate interventions, and provides information for local, provincial and national planning.
It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
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Associate Professor (Reader), Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher Rural Health in Transition and Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Trials for Older People, University of Newcastle
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Research associate, Harvard University
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, University of the Free State
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Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, UCL