Use it or lose it! Cognitive activity as a protective factor for cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease
| Autor: | Jutta Mata, Stefan Neuner-Jehle, Dominique Brand, Andrea Brioschi Guevara, Hedi Decrey-Wick, Luca Rampa, Irene Bopp-Kistler, Andreas Biedermann, Jean-Marie Annoni, Andreas U. Monsch, Dina Zekry, Jean-François Démonet, Philipp Tschopp, Reto W. Kressig, Brian W. Martin, Andreas E. Stuck, Ulrich Hemmeter, Panagiota Mistridis, Egemen Savaskan |
|---|---|
| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Monsch, Andreas U |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Aging medicine.medical_specialty Health coaching Motivational interviewing 610 Medicine & health 2700 General Medicine Health Promotion Motivational Interviewing Disease BrainCoach 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine prevention Cognitive Reserve Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Epidemiology medicine Humans Dementia Cognitive Dysfunction 030212 general & internal medicine Cognitive decline Life Style cognitive impairment Cognitive reserve business.industry 10060 Epidemiology Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) 11359 Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IREM) General Medicine Protective Factors medicine.disease business Alzheimer’s disease Switzerland 030217 neurology & neurosurgery dementia |
| Zdroj: | Swiss medical weekly, vol. 147, pp. w14407 Mistridis, Panagiota; Mata, Jutta; Neuner-Jehle, Stefan; Annoni, Jean-Marie; Biedermann, Andreas; Bopp-Kistler, Irene; Brand, Dominique; Brioschi Guevara, Andrea; Decrey-Wick, Hedi; Démonet, Jean-François; Hemmeter, Ulrich; Kressig, Reto W; Martin, Brian; Rampa, Luca; Savaskan, Egemen; Stuck, Andreas; Tschopp, Philipp; Zekry, Dina; Monsch, Andreas (2017). Use it or lose it! Cognitive activity as a protec-tive factor for cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. Swiss medical weekly, 147, w14407. EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag 10.4414/smw.2017.14407 |
| DOI: | 10.4414/smw.2017.14407 |
| Popis: | Because of the worldwide aging of populations, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias constitute a devastating experience for patients and families as well as a major social and economic burden for both healthcare systems and society. Multiple potentially modifiable cardiovascular and lifestyle risk factors have been associated with this disease. Thus, modifying these risk factors and identifying protective factors represent important strategies to prevent and delay disease onset and to decrease the social burden. Based on the cognitive reserve hypothesis, evidence from epidemiological studies shows that low education and cognitive inactivity constitute major risk factors for dementia. This indicates that a cognitively active lifestyle may protect against cognitive decline or delay the onset of dementia. We describe a newly developed preventive programme, based on this evidence, to stimulate and increase cognitive activity in older adults at risk for cognitive decline. This programme, called "BrainCoach", includes the technique of "motivational interview- ing" to foster behaviour change. If the planned feasibility study is successful, we propose to add BrainCoach as a module to the already existing "Health Coaching" programme, a Swiss preven- tive programme to address multiple risk factors in primary care. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|