This novel volume offers a comprehensive examination of dementia epidemiology, diagnosis, and care across lower- and middle-income countries, in particular exploring diverse and culturally inclusive perspectives on understanding, diagnosing, and managing dementia.
Arguing that living well with dementia, tailoring research and interventions to local contexts, and prioritising primary and secondary prevention efforts are of critical importance to the health outcomes of those living with dementia, this book goes beyond common approaches in high-health-resourced regions to explore health disparities, societal and cultural influences, and economic inequities often present in regions of low- to middle-health resources. Truly international chapters champion a pluralistic and multi-dimensional approach, taking diverse and culturally relevant aspects into consideration to review the challenges and advancements in dementia care; ultimately, the necessity for diverse and equitable approaches across regions is emphasized.
This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of Dementia research, gerontology and ageing within LMICs, and the sociology of health and illness more broadly as well as the global health ecosystem. The book may also appeal to clinicians developing dementia services.
This novel volume offers a comprehensive examination of dementia epidemiology, diagnosis, and care across lower- and middle-income countries, in particular exploring diverse and culturally inclusive perspectives on understanding, diagnosing, and managing dementia.
Introduction
PART 1 Introduction to dementia in the majority world
1 Epidemiology of dementia of the worlds two-thirds
2 Historical development and current status of longitudinal studies of ageing
with dementia relevance in the majority world: a critical overview
3 Situational analysis of global dementia risk scores per country by
geographical subregions and income levels
PART 2 Diagnosis and evaluation of dementia
4 Challenges to diagnosis of dementia: exemplars from Pakistan and Kenya
5 Cognitive assessment batteries for dementia: challenges and innovations
PART 3 Interventions for dementia
6 Preventing dementia across contexts: the AFRICA-FINGERS and the risk
dashboard approach
7 Drug interventions for cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of dementia
8 Adapting and implementing non-pharmacological interventions for dementia
9 Cognitive-oriented interventions to support dementia.
10 Arts in Health approaches to support dementia
PART 4 Care and support for people with dementia
11 Advocacy, third-sector support, and community activation
12 Care partners in the dementia journey
13 Experiences from designing and implementing integrated health and social
care systems for ageing populations in low-resource settings around the
world
5 Research, policy, and education for dementia
14 Rethinking Health Economics and Outcome Research for Dementia
15 Research capacity and capability development for dementia research in
majority-world settings
16 Education and training to develop leaders in dementia and brain health
Iracema Leroi is Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, Director of the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity), and a consultant geriatric psychiatrist at St James Hospital, Dublin.
Kim-Huong Nguyen is Senior Lecturer and Health Economist at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behaviour Science, the University of Queensland, Australia.
Agustin Ibañez is Professor in Global Brain Health, Trinity College Dublin, and Director of Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat) at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez (UAI), Chile.
Hany Ibrahim is Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Department Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
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