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Australian women’s concerns about their brain health – report

To understand the challenges with attention and memory that Australian women experience in everyday life, the 2025 National Women’s Health Survey asked them about experiences in the past year that may have made them concerned about their brain health.

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We live in a busy, distracting world with many competing demands on our time and attention. Along with everyday stressors, those competing demands can overload the brain, making it harder to concentrate, persevere and remember things.

To understand the challenges with attention and memory that Australian women experience in everyday life, the 2025 National Women’s Health Survey asked them about experiences that may have made them concerned about their brain health.

To assess women’s experiences with attention difficulties, we asked if any of the following situations in the past year had made them concerned about their brain health:

  • Getting easily distracted
  • Frequently finding it hard to concentrate
  • Frequently tuning out instead of focusing
  • Having difficulty organising tasks that have many steps

Australian women’s concerns about their brain health – download the full report (PDF)

 

This report is one of a series from the 2025 National Women’s Health Survey, a representative survey of Australian women aged 18 and over. The Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has funded Jean Hailes for Women’s Health to conduct the annual National Women’s Health Survey since 2017.