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Dementia Risk Reduction: Suggestions for Lifestyle Modification (NHS Choices / Lancet / BBC News / AAIC)
Summary A large-scale international review, by the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care (LCDPIC), suggests that perhaps one in three cases of dementia could be prevented if people took steps to follow healthier lifestyles and so protect their … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, International, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, NHS Choices, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 2017 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC®2017), Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age: University of Melbourne, Access to Education: Social Economic and Environmental Determinant (SEED) of Health, Active Lifestyle, Advancing Health Disparities Research in Alzheimer's Disease (NIA Grants), Ageing Population, Alzheimer's Association 2017 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, Alzheimer's Association: 10 Ways to Love Your Brain, Alzheimer’s Association AAIC Press Office, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC®2017), American Indians / Alaskan Natives (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Asian Americans (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Association Between Physical Activity and Cognitive Function and / or Dementia, Auditory Impairment, BBC Health News, Behind the Headlines, Blacks / African Americans (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Blood Pressure, Brain Training, Brighton and Sussex Medical School: University of Sussex, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, Canada, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Center for Innovative Care in Aging: Johns Hopkins University, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences: University of Edinburgh, Centre for Dementia Studies: University of Manchester, Centre for Dementia Studies: University of Sussex, Centre for Old Age Psychiatric Research (Innlandet Hospital Trust), Centre for the Health Care of Elderly People - Geriatric Medicine: Dalhousie University, Childhood Education, Childhood Education: Social Economic and Environmental Determinant (SEED) of Health, Chronic Diseases and Hearing Loss, Cognitive Impairment (Potential Risk and Protective Factors), Cognitive Impairment (Potential Risk Factors), Cognitive Interventions, Cognitive Training, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Cumulative Benefit of Reducing Risk Factors, Dalhousie University (Canada), Dementia and Diabetes, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, Dementia Prevention, Dementia Research Centre: University College London, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Dementia: End of Life, Department of Health Promotion: Tel-Aviv University, Department of Medicine: University of Washington, Department of Neurology and Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioural Sciences: Keck School of Medicine, Department of Old Age Psychiatry: King's College London, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences: Johns Hopkins Bayview, Department of Psychiatry: University of Michigan, Department Psychosocial and Community Health: University of Washington, Disability Populations (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Division of Psychiatry: University College London, Environmental and Lifestyle Factors, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Exercise, Faculty of Medicine: University of Oslo, France, Grants for Advancing Health Disparities Research in Alzheimer's Disease (NIA), Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Hearing, Hearing Loss and Cognition, Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline, Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment, Hearing Loss and Dementia, Hearing Loss in Adulthood, Hearing Loss: Risk of Dementia, Heczeg Institute on Aging: Tel Aviv University, High Blood Pressure, Hispanics / Latinos (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Hypertension, Impact of Hearing Loss, Innlandet Hospital Trust (Norway), Institute of Health and Society: University of Oslo, Institute of Neurology: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Intervention and Care, Intervention and Care (LCDPIC), Israel, Johns Hopkins University, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Keck School of Medicine, Kings College London, La Colombière Hospital (Montpellier), Lancet, Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, LCDPIC: Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology: University of Southern California, Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Loneliness Harms Health, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department: University College London, MCI: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Medical School: University of Exeter, Mediterranean Diet, Midlife Hypertension, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life: Tel Aviv University, Moderate Exercise, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Ageing Research Institute: Australia, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Aging (US), National Institute on Aging: Grants for Advancing Health Disparities Research in Alzheimer's Disease, Native Hawaiians / Other Pacific Islanders (NIA Health Disparities Populations), Neuroprotective Lifestyles, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in People With Dementia, Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuropsychiatry - 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Early Research on Stress and Social Disadvantage as Potential Risk Factors (BBC News / AAIC)
Summary Early research findings presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London suggest that stressful life events, and more generally the chronic stress of enduring social deprivation life-long, may age the brain. The researchers claim that extremely stressful experiences … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, International, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 2017 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC®2017), African Americans, Alzheimer’s Association AAIC Press Office, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC®2017), Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Environmental Risk Factors, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Ethnicity, Health Determinants, Health Improvement, Health Inequalities, Health Policy, Immune System, Immune System and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Improving Local Public Health, Improving Public Health, Inflammation, Inflammation and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Inflammatory Response, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modifiable Risk Factors, Necroptosis, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neuroinflammation, Overlapping Risk Factors, Potentially Modifiable Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention of Dementia, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Factors, Social Epidemiology, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Stressful Life Experiences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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New: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Psychology (BPS)
Summary The purpose of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Psychology is to “raise awareness amongst parliamentarians and policymakers of the importance and relevance of psychology”. This new APPG has the aim of maximising the impact of psychology for greater public … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, All Party Parliamentary Group(s), BPS All Party Parliamentary Group for Psychology, British Psychological Society (BPS), Dementia Policy, Dr Lisa Morrison-Coulthard: Policy Director at British Psychological Society, Lisa Cameron MP: Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group for Psychology, Parliament, Parliamentarians, Social Policy and Society, Societal Challenges, UK Parliament
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