Brain Health Services: organization, structure, and challenges for implementation. A user manual for Brain Health Services-part 1 of 6.
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Authors
Molinuevo, José Luis
Ritchie, Craig
Ribaldi, Federica
Carrera, Emmanuel
Dubois, Bruno
Jessen, Frank
McWhirter, Laura
Scheltens, Philip
van der Flier, Wiesje M
Vellas, Bruno
Démonet, Jean-François
Frisoni, Giovanni B
European Task Force for Brain Health Services
Publication Date
2021-10-11Journal Title
Alzheimers Res Ther
ISSN
1758-9193
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
168
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
Physical Medium
Electronic
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Altomare, D., Molinuevo, J. L., Ritchie, C., Ribaldi, F., Carrera, E., Dubois, B., Jessen, F., et al. (2021). Brain Health Services: organization, structure, and challenges for implementation. A user manual for Brain Health Services-part 1 of 6.. Alzheimers Res Ther, 13 (1), 168. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-021-00827-2
Abstract
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 Organization. Delaying the onset of dementia by treating associated risk factors will bring huge individual and societal benefit. Empirical evidence suggests that, in higher-income countries, dementia incidence is decreasing as a result of healthier lifestyles. This observation supports the notion that preventing dementia is possible and that a certain degree of prevention is already in action. Further reduction of dementia incidence through deliberate prevention plans is needed to counteract its growing prevalence due to increasing life expectancy.An increasing number of individuals with normal cognitive performance seek help in the current memory clinics asking an evaluation of their dementia risk, preventive interventions, or interventions to ameliorate their cognitive performance. Consistent evidence suggests that some of these individuals are indeed at increased risk of dementia. This new health demand asks for a shift of target population, from patients with cognitive impairment to worried but cognitively unimpaired individuals. However, current memory clinics do not have the programs and protocols in place to deal with this new population.We envision the development of new services, henceforth called Brain Health Services, devoted to respond to demands from cognitively unimpaired individuals concerned about their risk of dementia. The missions of Brain Health Services will be (i) dementia risk profiling, (ii) dementia risk communication, (iii) dementia risk reduction, and (iv) cognitive enhancement. In this paper, we present the organizational and structural challenges associated with the set-up of Brain Health Services.
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European Task Force for Brain Health Services
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-021-00827-2
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/330742
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