Lifestyle for Healthy Ageing
- Research Opportunity
- Honours students
- Number of Honour Places Available
- 1
- Department / Centre
- Medicine and Radiology
- Location
- Royal Melbourne Hospital
Primary Supervisor | Number | Webpage | |
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Dr Alexandra Gorelik | healthy-ageing@unimelb.edu.au |
Co-supervisor | Number | Webpage | |
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Professor Cassandra Szoeke | cszoeke@unimelb.edu.au |
Summary This project will involve direct hands-on participant evaluation. This project will involve direct hands-on participant evaluation. You will also have the opportunity to work with a rich database with lifestyle data that spans over 20 years and opportunity for publication.
Project Details
Project description: Several studies have described the benefit of lifestyle change for healthy ageing and cognitive improvement. For example smoking, alcohol consumption and a lack of physical activity have been linked to an increased rate of cognitive impairment and cardiovascular diseases. Studies investigating lifestyle factors have been limited by cohort sampling bias, cross sectional designs, short follow‐ups and small sample sizes. Furthermore the frequency and intensity of lifestyle alteration is still not defined. In this project we examine a 20 year longitudinal dataset to determine the influence of lifestyle (i.e. alcohol consumption, smoking, diet and physical activity) on health.
This project will involve direct hands-on participant evaluation. This project will involve direct hands-on participant evaluation. You will also have the opportunity to work with a rich database with lifestyle data that spans over 20 years and opportunity for publication.
Faculty Research Themes
School Research Themes
Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Ageing
Research Opportunities
Honours students
Students who are interested in joining this project will need to consider their elegibility as well as other requirements before contacting the supervisor of this research
Key Contact
For further information about this research, please contact a supervisor.
Department / Centre
Research Node
Royal Melbourne HospitalMDHS Research library
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