Today, I link to “Brain Health Services: organization, structure, and challenges for implementation. A user manual for Brain Health Services—parts 1 through 6”
All that follows is from Brain Health Services, accessed 12-15-2024
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Current memory clinics have been developed to diagnose and treat persons with cognitive impairment. Empirical evidence suggests that a fair proportion of dementia cases are preventable, that some preventive actions can be taken immediately, and others may soon be implementable.
Prevention may target cognitively normal persons with modifiable risk factors through lifestyle and multiple domain interventions, and those at high risk of dementia due to Alzheimer’s pathology with future anti-amyloid, anti-tau or other drugs.
Specific skills and technology will be needed to meet the challenges posed by dementia prevention consisting of risk profiling, risk communication, and personalized risk reduction plans, for which new clinical services, called “Brain Health Services”, may need to be set up.
The aim of this initiative is to draft the “user manual” for the health care provider wishing to set up a BHS. These recommendations will be covered in four papers in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy on: i) organizational and structural challenges of BHS, ii) modifiable risk factors and risk profiling, iii) dementia risk communication, iv) protocol for precision risk reduction.
Contributors are European dementia experts involved in the prevention field as well as experts in the prevention of vascular diseases, a field with significant overlaps and potential synergies.
This series is presented as part of a virtual conference on Brain Health Services organised by Professors Giovanni Frisoni and Jean-François Demonet. All articles will undergo full independent review prior to publication, as is standard for Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy.
Societal and equity challenges for Brain Health Services. A user manual for Brain Health Services—part 6 of 6
Brain Health Services are a novel approach to the personalized prevention of dementia. In this paper, we consider how such services can best reflect their social, cultural, and economic context and, in doing s…
Citation:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 2021 13:173Protocols for cognitive enhancement. A user manual for Brain Health Services—part 5 of 6
Cognitive complaints in the absence of objective cognitive impairment, observed in patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), are common in old age. The first step to postpone cognitive decline is to us…
Citation:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 2021 13:172Multidomain interventions: state-of-the-art and future directions for protocols to implement precision dementia risk reduction. A user manual for Brain Health Services—part 4 of 6
Although prevention of dementia and late-life cognitive decline is a major public health priority, there are currently no generally established prevention strategies or operational models for implementing such…
Citation:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 2021 13:171Modifiable risk factors for dementia and dementia risk profiling. A user manual for Brain Health Services—part 2 of 6
We envisage the development of new Brain Health Services to achieve primary and secondary dementia prevention. These services will complement existing memory clinics by targeting cognitively unimpaired individ…
Citation:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 2021 13:169Brain Health Services: organization, structure, and challenges for implementation. A user manual for Brain Health Services—part 1 of 6
Dementia has a devastating impact on the quality of life of patients and families and comes with a huge cost to society. Dementia prevention is considered a public health priority by the World Health Organizat…
Citation:Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy 2021 13:168
