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"The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies"--
Dementia --- Dementia. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases
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The dementia challenge is the largest health effort of the times we live in. The whole society has to move to a realization of the significance of prioritization to make an attempt in the direction of mental health promotion and dementia risk reduction. New priorities for research are needed to go far beyond the usual goal of constructing a disease course-modifying medication. Moreover, a full empowerment and engagement of men and women living with dementia and their caregivers, overcoming stigma and discrimination should be promoted. The common efforts and the final aim will have to be the progress of a ''dementia-constructive'' world, where people with dementia can take advantage of equal opportunities.
Dementia. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases --- Life Sciences --- Neuroscience --- Cognitive Neuroscience --- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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This review systematically explores and assesses the quality of the evidence base for effective and supportive design of living environments for people living with Dementia. Dementia is a major challenge for all countries, as the population with the condition is growing rapidly. Societies desperately need to identify measures which mean that they can continue to thrive with a large population of people who are cognitively impaired. Medical treatments are poor, and there is little indication of better medications appearing in the coming decades. There is urgent need for non-medical advances which can address the challenge including ensuring environments are conducive to living better with Dementia. Whilst there is a lot of activity in this area of Dementia friendly design, the evidence base remains poorly synthesized and weak.This book pulls evidence together to provide a solid reference point from which further research and further developments in the field of Dementia care and support can proceed.The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online.
Dementia --- Social Science, Gerontology. --- Alzheimers & dementia. --- Physiological aspects. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases
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Advances in Dementia Research provides a comprehensive overview of Alzheimer's dementia. This book also represents the association between the components of metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Vascular dementia associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive impairments is due to multiple complications of the neurovascular system. This book attempts to explore the recent advancements of enzyme targets for the management of vascular dementia. Furthermore, this book highlights the effectiveness of social recreational programs as an example of a recovery intervention for persons with dementia that focuses on reducing the risk of social isolation associated with dementia. Together the insightful research presented in this book provides valuable information for neuroscientists, researchers, medical professionals, academicians, and upper-level students, as well as for industry professionals.
Dementia --- Research. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases --- Medicine --- Neuropsychology --- Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System --- Health Sciences
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Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in acute wards in the UK, the authors follow people living with dementia through their admission, shadowing hospital staff as they interact with them during and across shifts. In a major contribution to the tradition of hospital ethnography, this book provides a valuable analysis of the organisation and delivery of routine care and everyday interactions at the bedside, which reveal the powerful continuities and durability of ward cultures of care and their impacts on people living with dementia.
Dementia --- Démence --- Patients --- Care. --- Social aspects. --- Care --- Soins. --- Aspect social. --- Soins --- Psychological aspects. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases
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Tanzen in Verbindung mit anderen und kreativen Bewegungen führt zu einer einzigartigen Verknüpfung körperlicher, geistiger und sozialer Aktivitäten und kann bis ins hohe Alter viel Freude bereiten! Es ist zu vermuten, dass die Bewegung zur Musik, weil diese so vielfältig anregend ist, uns vor frühzeitigem Altern und Demenz schützen kann. Tanzen schafft einen direkten Zugang zum Gehirn mit all seiner Komplexität. Das REMIND-Programm nutzt diesen Zugang für ein neuartiges Übungsprogramm, das uns dabei unterstützen soll, Reserven für ein langes Leben in geistiger Gesundheit aufzubauen und zu erhalten. REMIND wurde speziell von Wissenschaftlerinnen der Forschungsgruppe "Gehirn und Resilienz", geleitet von Dr. Miranka Wirth (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V.), in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Tanz- und Bewegungstherapeutin Angela Nicotra (Nicadanza, Berlin) entwickelt. Das Trainingskonzept basiert auf aktuellen neurowissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und nutzt Elemente der Bewegungslehre nach Laban/Bartenieff und des Tangos nach Sistema Dinzel. Dieses Manual ist der Leitfaden für das ganzheitliche Programm. Es veranschaulicht das Konzept, vermittelt die Übungsinhalte und gibt didaktische Empfehlungen für die Durchführung von REMIND. Unser Programm dient der aktiven Gesundheitsförderung und der Prävention von Demenz bis ins hohe Alter. Angela Nicotra, Tanz- und Bewegungstherapeutin, Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie Gestalttherapeutin. In ihrer therapeutischen Arbeit integriert sie verschiedene Disziplinen und Tanzrichtungen. Angela Nicotra arbeitet als Ausbilderin eng mit WissenschaftlerInnen zusammen besonders zur Wirkung des Tangos Sistema Dinzel© auf PatientInnen mit einer Alzheimer-Erkrankung. Die Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin Dr. Miranka Wirth leitet seit 2019 die Arbeitsgruppe "Gehirn und Resilienz" am DZNE in Dresden. Spezialisiert auf die Untersuchung kognitiver Funktionen und deren gesunden Erhalt widmet sie sich der Erforschung frühzeitiger krankhafter Prozesse im Gehirn und der Untersuchung von Risiko- und Schutzfaktoren von demenziellen Erkrankungen. Ein bedeutendes Ziel ihrer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit besteht darin, wirksame präventive und therapeutisch Maßnahmen zu entwickeln, welche die Plastizität und Regeneration des Gehirns bis ins hohe Alter anregen, um der Entstehung von Demenzerkrankungen vorzubeugen. Die Interessens- und Arbeitsschwerpunkte der Neurobiologin Dr. Theresa Köbe umfassen sowohl die Erforschung eines gesunden kognitiven Alterns als auch die Entwicklung von Strategien gegen eine beginnende Alzheimer-Erkrankung. Im Laufe ihrer wissenschaftlichen Karriere untersuchte sie die Wirksamkeit verschiedener nicht-pharmakologischer und lebensstilbezogener Präventions- und Therapieansätze für ältere Menschen mit leichten kognitiven Einschränkungen sowie Risikofaktoren, die damit in Zusammenhang stehen. Als wissenschaftliche Referentin ist sie seit 2021 im Gesundheitsforschungsmanagement sowie der Strategie- und Konzeptentwicklung in der Wissenschaft beim Projektträger des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) e.V. tätig.
Old age. --- Dementia. --- Music. --- Dementia --- Prevention. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Senescence --- Adulthood --- Age --- Longevity --- Older people --- Diseases
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A comprehensive study exploring an important and relevant social issue: the care for the elderly.
Dementia -- Netherlands -- Patients -- Care. --- Dementia -- Patients -- Care -- Netherlands. --- Dementia. --- Multiculturalism -- Netherlands. --- Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Netherlands. --- Terminal care -- Netherlands. --- Patient Care --- Cultural Diversity --- Dementia --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Culture --- Health Services --- Therapeutics --- Brain Diseases --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Sociology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Mental Disorders --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Health Care --- Nervous System Diseases --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Diseases --- Multiculturalism --- Patients --- Care --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Care. --- culture and instituten --- public administration --- bestuurskunde --- culture and institutions --- sociology --- sociologie
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In 2010, 15 percent of Americans older than age 70 had dementia. By 2050, the number of new dementia cases among those 65 and older is expected to double. This blueprint outlines policy options to help decisionmakers improve dementia long-term services and supports (LTSS) by promoting earlier detection, improving access to LTSS, promoting person- and caregiver-centered care, supporting caregivers, and reducing dementia LTSS costs.
Aged -- United States. --- Dementia -- Therapy -- United States. --- Long-term care -- United States. --- Quality improvement -- United States. --- Adult --- Patient Care --- Engineering --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- North America --- Quality of Health Care --- Brain Diseases --- Mental Disorders --- Health Services Administration --- Americas --- Age Groups --- Health Services --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Therapeutics --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Nervous System Diseases --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Geographic Locations --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Persons --- Health Care --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Named Groups --- Geographicals --- Diseases --- Aged --- Dementia --- Quality Improvement --- Long-Term Care --- United States --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Treatment --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses
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Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.
Anthropology. --- Dementia. --- Medical anthropology. --- Medical anthropology --- Dementia --- Alzheimer's disease --- Public health --- Alzheimer Disease --- Aged --- Anthropology --- Clinical Medicine --- Social Sciences --- Brain Diseases --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Medicine --- Tauopathies --- Adult --- Age Groups --- Behavioral Sciences --- Mental Disorders --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Occupations --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Diseases --- Physical Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Alzheimer's disease. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Medical care --- Alzheimer disease --- Alzheimer's dementia --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Basal ganglia --- Presenile dementia --- Senile dementia --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses
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Wir werden immer älter. Gleichzeitig gibt es zunehmend Menschen, die mit Demenz altern und nur noch versorgt werden. Klar ist: Wir brauchen Alternativen zu den eingefahrenen Umgangsweisen. Was tun wir, um Orte zu schaffen, an denen wir im Leben bleiben können - statt nur am Leben? Wie können wir das Lebensumfeld von Menschen mit und ohne Demenz zu »menschenwärmenden Orten« machen? In Deutschland sind zahlreiche Initiativen im Aufbruch: Engagierte Menschen aus Politik, Kultur und Kirche sind auf kreative Weise unterwegs zu Demenzfreundlichen Kommunen. Die drei Autor/innen, eng vertraut mit dem Thema, zeigen Suchbewegungen, Stolpersteine und erste Lösungsansätze auf. »Für Leserinnen und Leser, die sich dem sogenannten Demenz-Diskurs erst annähern, bietet sich eine Fülle von Anregungen und Hinweisen, und Personen, die sich für Menschen mit Demenz engagieren (möchten), werden vom Beitrag Verena Rothes profitieren.« Birgit Schuhmacher, Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik, 62 (2016) »Eine ermutigende Handreichung besonders für Kommunalverantwortliche und Multiplikatoren.« Uwe-Friedrich Obsen, ekz-Bibliotheksservice, 6 (2016) »Die Autor(inn)nen [...] reflektieren gemachte Erfahrungen und bieten neue kreative Wege an.« neue caritas, 22 (2015) Besprochen in: Pro Pflege - Selbsthilfenetzwerk, 11.10.2015 Dr. med. Mabuse, 1/2 (2016) Rundbrief des Begegnungszentrums für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit, 155/3 (2015) www.alzheimer-bw.de, 12 (2015) Nachrichtendienst, 12 (2015) Pro Alter, 1 (2016) www.socialnet.de, Sven Lind, 07.03.2016 http://www.bzw-weiterdenken.de, 15.03.2016, Antje Schrupp ergopraxis, 5 (2016) Gesundheit aktiv, 4/5 (2016) demenz, 30 (2016) Dr. med. Mabuse, 224 (2016)
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