| 书目名称 | New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease | | 编辑 | Taher Zandi (Associate Professor of Psychology, Di | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The management of Alzheimer‘s Disease and the related dementias is one of the major challenges to health care professionals and American society-at-large for the coming decade and the coming millennium. The rapid growth of the over-eighty-five population, the group which, as recent studies have confirmed and as many of us clinicians have long suspected, has an even higher prevalence than previously quoted of dementing disorders, is the major cause of this. We are thus challenged by, as Bernard Issacs used to call it, "the survival of the unfittest," as well as the oPtimistic approach of "bringing life to years," as John F. Kennedy said. The fact is that we, as a society, tend to confuse "treatment" and "cure" (and "prevention"). As the proceedings of the conference which this book represents emphasize, there is considerable work going on about the potential prevention of, or at least the reduction of, symptomatology in these illnesses by interventions genetically, chemIcally, and so forth. However, the more we find out, the more complicated it becomes, and the more heterogeneous Alzheimer‘s and the related disorders appear to be, not only in their manifestations (as clinicians have | | 出版日期 | Book 1990 | | 关键词 | Alzheimer; Case Management; alzheimer‘s disease; cognition; dementia; depression; etiology; health; health c | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0665-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-7917-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-0665-8Series ISSN 0065-2598 Series E-ISSN 2214-8019 | | issn_series | 0065-2598 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Busines |
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