Publications 

Our publications reflect collaborative research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Elders, researchers, health professionals and partner organisations. Together, this work contributes to building knowledge, strengthening health and wellbeing, and supporting better outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Browse our publications below to learn more about our research, findings and impact.

2026

Nguyen, H. X. T., Hyde, Z., Watson, R., Smith, K., Malay, R., Flicker, L., Radford, K., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Sagigi, B., Strivens, E., Withall, A., Timbery, A., Donovan, T., Draper, B., Delbaere, K., Lavrencic, L., Cumming, R., Hughson, J. anne, … LoGiudice, D. (2026). Strength together: Risk and protective factors for dementia and cognitive impairment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. International Psychogeriatrics, 100206.

Quigley, R., Russell, S., Strivens, | Edward, Sagigi, B., Wapau, C., Larkins, S., Taylor, S., Flicker, L., Smith, K., Logiudice, D., Pachana, N. A., & Redman-Maclaren, M. (2026). The Development of a Framework to Support Ageing Well in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 45(3), e70211.

Zanker, J., Hyde, Z., Smith, K., Bessarab, D., Bradley, K., Douglas, H., Hughson, J. A., Nguyen, H., Malay, R., Quigley, R., Radford, K., Russell, S., Smith, R. A., Werdiger, F., Strivens, E., Flicker, L., & LoGiudice, D. (2026). The Clock Is Not Enough: The Clock Drawing Test versus the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment for Detecting Dementia in Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Adults. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 55(3), 203–212.

 2025

Bradley, K., Hughson, J. anne, Hyde, Z., Atkinson, D., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Bessarab, D., Flicker, L., Radford, K., Smith, K., Strivens, E., Thompson, S., Blackberry, I., Belfrage, M., Smith, R., Malay, R., Ducker, B., Sullivan, K., Allan, W., … LoGiudice, D. (2025). Detection of cognitive impairment, dementia and associated risk factors among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: Retrospective baseline audit results from a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 44(1), e70007.

Gilchrist, L., Flicker, L., Bessarab, D., Malay, R., Yambo, L., Sagigi, B., Wapau, C., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Rivers, C., Hyde, Z., Chaney, E., Strivens, E., White, C., & Smith, K. (2025a). Adaptation of the Good Spirit, Good Life quality of life tool for remote Indigenous Australians. Quality of Life Research 2025 34:11, 34(11), 3245–3255.

Gilchrist, L., Flicker, L., Bessarab, D., Malay, R., Yambo, L., Sagigi, B., Wapau, C., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Rivers, C., Hyde, Z., Chaney, E., Strivens, E., White, C., & Smith, K. (2025b). The acceptability of the Good Spirit, Good Life framework for remote-living Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. SSM - Mental Health, 7, 100443.

Goldberg, L. R., Radford, K., Smith, K., LoGiudice, D., Poulos, L., Baldock, D., Andersen, C., Charles, J., Canty, A. J., Bessarab, D., Cartwright, J., Hughson, J. anne, Schmidt, M., Evans, J., Rivers, C., Spotswood, J., & Vickers, J. (2025). Privileging the spirit, voices, and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in dementia care: Education for non-Indigenous health care providers. SSM - Mental Health, 7, 100395.

Hughson, J. anne, Belfrage, M., Douglas, H., Bessarab, D., Curnow, V., Malay, R., McKeown, D., Smith, R., & LoGiudice, D. (2025). Developing a best-practice guide to support care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with cognitive impairment and dementia: Prioritising inclusivity, consensus-building and cultural values. SSM - Mental Health, 7, 100420.

Hughson, J. anne, Hyde, Z., Bradley, K., Malay, R., Douglas, H., Rind, S., Sullivan, K., Poulos, L., Allen, B., Martin-Giles, B., Quigley, R., Russell, S., Cadet-James, D., Wallace, V., Allan, W., Bessarab, D., Smith, K., Radford, K., Strivens, E., … LoGiudice, D. (2025). Implementation of a best-practice model of care for cognitive impairment and dementia for first nations peoples attending primary care in Australia: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 57, 101529.

Hyde, Z., Smith, K., Malay, R., LoGiudice, D. C., Bessarab, D. C., Atkinson, D. N., Strivens, E., & Flicker, L. (2025). Intrinsic capacity and ageing well for Aboriginal people in remote Western Australia: a longitudinal cohort study. Medical Journal of Australia, 222(1), 38–46.

Hyde, Z., Flicker, L., Douglas, R., Rind, S., Rind, N., LoGiudice, D., & Smith, K. (2025). Development of a Memory Clinic at an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Service: Profile of the First Patients. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 44(4), e70106.

Hyde, Z., Pestell, C., Yappo, L., Dowden, G., Lalovic, A., Markey, L., Bynder, M., Hunt, E. J., Bessarab, D., Cox, K., Flicker, L., LoGiudice, D., Hill, K. D., Thompson, S., Basile, A., & Smith, K. (2025). A comparison of cognitive and health assessment tools used in a dementia prevention and risk management program for urban-dwelling older aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA). SSM - Mental Health, 7, 100455.

Luke, J., Temple, J., Wilson, T., Williams, R., Taylor, S., & LoGiudice, D. (2025). Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations living with dementia: State and territory scenario-based projections into the future. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 44(3), e70068.

Nguyen, H. X. T., Hyde, Z., Smith, K., Malay, R., Flicker, L., Watson, R., Radford, K., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Sagigi, B., Strivens, E., Withall, A., Timbery, A., Donovan, T., Draper, B., Delbaere, K., Lavrencic, L., Cumming, R., Hughson, J. anne, … LoGiudice, D. (2025). A Prototype Rapid Tool to Enhance Detection of Dementia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Primary Care. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 40(7), e70126.

Rohit, A., Yappo, L., Lalovic, A., Dowden, G., Markey, L., Little, N., Basile, A., Mateo-Arriero, I., Cox, K. L., Pestell, C. F., Flicker, L., Thompson, S. C., Woods, D., Edgill, P., Hill, K. D., Bessarab, D., Milte, R., Etherton-Beer, C., LoGiudice, D., … Smith, K. (2025). Process Evaluation of a Dementia Prevention Program for Aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA) Using a Theory of Change Framework. Qualitative Health Research.

Yappo, L., Abdul Razak, M., & Smith, K. (2025). A Community-Led Approach to Brain Health: Co-design of the DAMPAA Brain Health Resources for Aboriginal Elders. Australian Journal of Dementia Care, 14(4), 33–35.

2024

Holdaway, M., Hyde, Z., Hughson, J. anne, Malay, R., Stafford, A., Fulford, K., Radford, K., Flicker, L., Smith, K., Pond, D., Russell, S., Atkinson, D., Blackberry, I., & LoGiudice, D. (2024). Medications and cognitive risk in Aboriginal primary care: a cross-sectional study. Internal Medicine Journal, 54(6), 897–908.

Lalovic, A., Dowden, G., Markey, L., Bynder, M., Yappo, L., Cox, K. L., Mateo-Arriero, I., Flicker, L., Bessarab, D., Thompson, S., Kickett, C., Woods, D., Pestell, C. F., Edgill, P., Hill, K., Etherton-Beer, C., LoGiudice, D., Almeida, O. P., Lin, I., … Smith, K. (2024). Community-based dementia risk management and prevention program for Aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA): a randomised controlled trial study protocol. BMJ Open, 14(9), e088281.

Luke, J. N., Bessarab, D., Smith, K., Logiudice, D., Flicker, L., Gilchrist, L., Dow, B., & Temple, J. (2024). Counting the Ways That Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Older People Participate in Their Communities and Culture. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 79(8), 100.

Parrella, A., Zagler, J., D’Antoine, M., Brodie, T., Smith, K., Watts, A. M., Ieremia, T., Aitken, G., Brown, A., & Pearson, O. (2024). Workforce training needs to address social and emotional wellbeing in home-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care. Australian Health Review, 48(3), 283–290.

Rivers, C., Haynes, E., LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., & Bessarab, D. (2024). Best practice models of aged-care implemented for First Nations people: a systematic review aligned with the Good Spirit Good Life quality of life principles. BMC Geriatrics 2024 24:1, 24(1), 210.

Russell, S., Quigley, R., Thompson, F., Sagigi, B., Miller, G., LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Flicker, L., Pachana, N. A., Kordick, S., & Strivens, E. (2024). Validation of the Kimberley Cognitive Assessment (KICA-Cog) for Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 43(3), 545–552.

Smith, K., Hyde, Z., Flicker, L., Atkinson, D., Malay, R., & LoGiudice, D. (2024). Prevalence of functional limitations in older remote-living Aboriginal Australians. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 32(2), 311–319.

2023

Gilchrist, L., Hyde, Z., Petersen, C., Douglas, H., Hayden, S., Bessarab, D., Flicker, L., LoGiudice, D., Ratcliffe, J., Clinch, C., Taylor, K., Bradley, K., & Smith, K. (2023). Validation of the Good Spirit, Good Life quality-of-life tool for older Aboriginal Australians. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 42(2), 302–310.

Hornby-Turner, Y. C., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Matthews, V., Larkins, S., Hayman, N., Lakhan, P., Flicker, L., Smith, K., McKeown, D., Cadet-James, D., Cass, A., Garvey, G., LoGiudice, D., Miller, G., & Strivens, E. (2023). Safeguarding against Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities through the Optimisation of Primary Health Care: A Project Protocol. Methods and Protocols 2023, Vol. 6, Page 103, 6(5).

LoGiudice, D., Hughson, J., Douglas, H., Wenitong, M., & Belfrage, M. (2023). Culturally safe, trauma informed approach to cognitive impairment and dementia in older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Australian Journal of General Practice, 52(8), 505–511.

Mateo-Arriero, I., Lalovic, A., Dowden, G., Markey, L., Cox, K. L., Flicker, L., Bessarab, D., Thompson, S., Kickett, C., Woods, D., Pestell, C. F., Edgill, P., Etherton-Beer, C., & Smith, K. (2023). Co-design of dementia prevention program for Aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA). Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 19(10), 4564–4571.

Russell, S. G., Quigley, R., Thompson, F., Sagigi, B., Miller, G., LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Strivens, E., & Pachana, N. A. (2023). Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Depression and Anxiety in Older Torres Strait Islanders: Limitations and Recommendations. Clinical Gerontologist, 46(2), 240–252.

See, R. S., Thompson, F., Russell, S., Quigley, R., Esterman, A., Harriss, L. R., Hyde, Z., Taylor, S., Radford, K., LoGiudice, D., McDermott, R., Livingston, G., & Strivens, E. (2023). Potentially modifiable dementia risk factors in all Australians and within population groups: an analysis using cross-sectional survey data. The Lancet Public Health, 8(9), e717–e725.

Taylor, K., Ratcliffe, J., Bessarab, D., & Smith, K. (2023). Valuing indigenous quality of life: A review of preference-based quality of life instruments and elicitation techniques with global older indigenous populations. Social Science & Medicine, 336, 116271.

2022

Russell, S. G., Quigley, R., Thompson, F., Sagigi, B., Miller, G., LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Pachana, N. A., & Strivens, E. (2022). Factors associated with the increased risk of dementia found in the Torres Strait. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 41(1), 88–96.

2021

LoGiudice, D., Josif, C. M., Malay, R., Hyde, Z., Haswell, M., Lindeman, M. A., Etherton-Beer, C., Atkinson, D., Bessarab, D., Flicker, L., & Smith, K. (2021). The Well-Being of Carers of Older Aboriginal People Living in the Kimberley Region of Remote Western Australia: Empowerment, Depression, and Carer Burden. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 40(7), 693–702.

LoGiudice, D., Josif, C., Malay, R., Hyde, Z., Haswell, M. R., Lindeman, M., Etherton-Beer, C., Atkinson, D., Bessarab, D., Flicker, L., & Smith, K. (2021b). Strong Carers, Strong Communities: a cluster randomised controlled trial to improve wellbeing of family carers of older people in remote Aboriginal communities. Rural and Remote Health, 21(3), 1–06.

Russell, S., Quigley, R., Strivens, E., Miller, G., Norrie, J., Craig, D., Jordan, J., & Muller, R. (2021). Validation of the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment short form (KICA-screen) for telehealth. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 27(1), 54-58.

Russell, S., Quigley, R., Thompson, F., Sagigi, B., LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Pachana, N., Miller, G., & Strivens, E. (2021). Prevalence of dementia in the Torres Strait. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 40(2).

Smith, K., Gilchrist, L., Taylor, K., Clinch, C., Logiudice, D., Edgill, P., Ratcliffe, J., Flicker, L., Douglas, H., Bradley, K., & Bessarab, D. (2021). Good Spirit, Good Life: A Quality of Life Tool and Framework for Older Aboriginal Peoples. The Gerontologist, 61(5), e163–e172.

Wong, A., Hyde, Z., Smith, K., Flicker, L., Atkinson, D., Skeaf, L., Malay, R., & LoGiudice, D. (2021). Prevalence and sites of pain in remote-living older Aboriginal Australians, and associations with depressive symptoms and disability. Internal Medicine Journal, 51(7), 1092–1100.

2020

Belfrage, M., Hughson, J., Douglas, H., & LoGiudice, D. (2020). Best-practice guide to cognitive impairment and dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending primary care. University of Melbourne.

Bradley, K., Smith, R., Hughson, J. A., Atkinson, D., Bessarab, D., Flicker, L., Radford, K., Smith, K., Strivens, E., Thompson, S., Blackberry, I., & Logiudice, D. (2020). Let’s CHAT (community health approaches to) dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Health Services Research, 20(1), 208.

Older Publications

Dyer, S. M., Laver, K., Friel, M., Whitehead, C., & Crotty, M. (2017). The diagnostic accuracy of the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) tool: A systematic review. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 282–287.

Lin, I., Green, C., & Bessarab, D. (2016). ‘Yarn with me’: applying clinical yarning to improve clinician–patient communication in Aboriginal health care. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 22(5), 377–382.

LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Fenner, S., Hyde, Z., Atkinson, D., Skeaf, L., Malay, R., & Flicker, L. (2016). Incidence and predictors of cognitive impairment and dementia in Aboriginal Australians: A follow-up study of 5 years. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 12(3), 252–261.

LoGiudice, D., Smith, K., Thomas, J., Lautenschlager, N. T., Almeida, O. P., Atkinson, D., & Flicker, L. (2006). Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment tool (KICA): Development of a cognitive assessment tool for older indigenous Australians. International Psychogeriatrics, 18(2), 269–280.

LoGiudice, D., Strivens, E., Smith, K., Stevenson, M., Atkinson, D., Dwyer, A., Lautenschlager, N., Almeida, O. A., & Flicker, L. (2011). The KICA Screen: The psychometric properties of a shortened version of the KICA (Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment). Australasian Journal on Ageing, 30(4), 215–219.

Radford, K., Mack, H. A., Draper, B., Chalkley, S., Daylight, G., Cumming, R., Bennett, H., Delbaere, K., & Broe, G. A. (2015). Prevalence of dementia in urban and regional Aboriginal Australians. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 11(3), 271–279.

Radford, K., Mack, H. A., Draper, B., Chalkley, S., Delbaere, K., Daylight, G., Cumming, R. G., Bennett, H., & Broe, G. A. (2015). Comparison of Three Cognitive Screening Tools in Older Urban and Regional Aboriginal Australians. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 40(1–2), 22–32.

Smith, K., Flicker, L., Lautenschlager, N. T., Almeida, O. P., Atkinson, D., Dwyer, A., & Logiudice, D. (2008). High prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Indigenous Australians. Neurology, 71(19), 1470–1473.

Smith, K., Logiudice, D., Dwyer, A., Thomas, J., Flicker, L., Lautenschlager, N. T., Almeida, O. P., & Atkinson, D. (2007). “Ngana minyarti? What is this?” Development of cognitive questions for the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment: Research. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 26(3), 115