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| Healthy lifestyles to prevent dementia and reduce dementia symptoms | | Author(s) | Eef Hogervorst |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 21, no 1, 2017 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 31-39 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/wwop |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Nutrition ; Dementia ; Symptoms ; Preventative medicine ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Due to an ageing population, dementia is a growing problem worldwide. It has significant human and economic costs, and there is no effective medical treatment. The author uses earlier reviews to discuss the difference between dementia and cognitive ageing, and the different types of dementia in terms of manifestation and pathology. The author reviews non-modifiable risk factors for dementia, such as age, gender, genetics and education. Education can possibly have lifelong protective effects, as it may promote cognitive reserve. This paper focuses on lifestyle interventions to further increase brain reserve capacity. Findings from earlier reviews are summarised to provide guidelines for policymakers and practioners. The reviews suggest that most nutritional approaches may have limited effectiveness, and should be implemented in midlife, before dementia symptoms are present, and probably only in people who are actually nutritionally deficient. The author found a reasonable positive evidence base of engagement in cognitive and physical activities to prevent dementia, which may also help reduce symptoms of dementia. From the studies reviewed, it is suggested that keeping physically and mentally active may help in all stages of life, to prevent but also reduce dementia symptoms. A focus on nutrition and treating heart disease risk factors is possibly limited to midlife, or before dementia symptoms are present. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170310212 A |
| Classmark | CEA: CF: EA: CT: LK2: 64A |
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