Associate Professor Kaarin Anstey

Associate Professor Kaarin Anstey is Director of the Ageing Research Unit at the Centre for Mental Health Research, and an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. She completed her PhD in cognitive ageing in 1997 and undertook an NHMRC Training Fellowship at Flinders University and the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute from 1998-2001.

Anstey's research interests include the epidemiology of cognitive decline and dementia, depression in late life, predictors of longevity, psychological wellbeing, driving and mobility, and longitudinal methods. She is the Principal Investigator on an NHMRC Strategic Grant on Ageing Well Ageing Productively that involves pooling 9 longitudinal ageing studies to model health and ageing. Dr Anstey is on the editorial boards of Gerontology, Ageing International, Ageing Neuropsychology and Cognition, and the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science.