1st Edition
New Developments in Dementia Prevention Research State of the Art and Future Possibilities
Contributors
Foreword
Acronyms
Chapter 1. Introduction
Book Outline
Chapter 2. From prediction to dementia prevention
Section 1. Established and emerging risk factors
Chapter 3. Lifestyle factors and dementia: smoking, exercise and diet
Chapter 4. Vascular disease-based risk factors for dementia
Chapter 5. Mood and other psychiatric factors
Chapter 6. Cognitive Activity within a Dementia Prevention Hierarchy: The potential Roles of Cognitive Reserve in Detecting, Modifying and Managing Disease Expression
Chapter 7. Sleep problems
Chapter 8. Behaviour change for dementia prevention and risk reduction
Section 2. Social, political and economic aspects
Chapter 9. Existing and future health policy in dementia prevention
Chapter 10. Changing practice in primary care
Chapter 11. The economics of preventing dementia
Chapter 12. Health-economics of dementia prevention using modelling
Chapter 13. Cognitive footprint: a framework to guide public policy
Chapter 14. Conclusion: A Call to Action
Biography
Kate Irving is a jointly appointed Professor of Clinical Nursing and Dublin City University and Dublin North Community Health Organisation.
Eef Hogervorst is Professor of Biological Psychology at Loughborough University and Director of Dementia Research.
Deborah Oliveira is a Nurse by background and works as a Research Fellow (Programme Manager) for the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Miia Kivipelto is Professor of Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
