Wai Chi Chan

Abstract Self-focused rumination, defined as an excessive attentional focus on one’s depressive symptoms and their causes, meanings, and consequences, is well-established for its contribution to the onset and maintenance of depressive and anxiety symptoms.

1 Background By 2030, one in six people will be aged 60 years or older [1], with the average life expectancy at age 65 projected to be around 20 years [2, 3]. To address the impacts of rapid population ageing and increasing life expectancy on the shrinking working-age population, the active participation of older adults in the labour force can be crucial [4, 5].

Introduction Dementia is an age-related disease, currently known as a major neurocognitive disorder (NCD), is a worldwide health burden. Interventions that aim to ameliorate cognitive decline or to prevent the development of dementia offer a compelling alternative paradigm in reducing the impact of the disease, that not only benefit the individual but also the quality of lives of their families and society.