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Altomare, Daniele, Molinuevo, Jose Luis, Ritchie, Craig, Ribaldi, Federica ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-4472, Carrera, Emmanuel ORCID: 0000-0003-0045-5382, Dubois, Bruno, Jessen, Frank, McWhirter, Laura, Scheltens, Philip, van der Flier, Wiesje M., Vellas, Bruno, Demonet, Jean-Francois and Frisoni, Giovanni B. (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). LONDON: BMC. ISSN 1758-9193

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Altomare, Daniele UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Molinuevo, Jose Luis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ritchie, Craig UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ribaldi, Federica UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-4472 UNSPECIFIED Carrera, Emmanuel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0045-5382 UNSPECIFIED Dubois, Bruno UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jessen, Frank UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED McWhirter, Laura UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Scheltens, Philip UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED van der Flier, Wiesje M. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Vellas, Bruno UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Demonet, Jean-Francois UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Frisoni, Giovanni B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-602689
DOI:	10.1186/s13195-021-00827-2
Journal or Publication Title:	Alzheimers Res. Ther.
Volume:	13
Number:	1
Date:	2021
Publisher:	BMC
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1758-9193
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language APOLIPOPROTEIN-E GENOTYPE; DEMENTIA INCIDENCE; ALZHEIMER-DISEASE; RISK; PREVENTION; INTERVENTION; TRENDS; CARE; SUPPLEMENTATION; EUROPE Multiple languages Clinical Neurology; Neurosciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/60268