Preventing Dementia? : : Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age / / ed. by Annette Leibing, Silke Schicktanz.

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • INTRODUCTION Reflections on the “New Dementia”
  • PART I The Discursive and Social Practices of Dementia Prevention
  • 1 A WINDOW TO ACT? Revisiting the Conceptual Foundations of Alzheimer’s Disease in Dementia Prevention
  • 2 THE VASCULARIZATION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Prevention in “Glocal” Geriatric Care
  • 3 IF DEMENTIA PREVENTION IS THE ANSWER, WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? Observations from the German Alzheimer’s Disease Debate
  • 4 DEMENTIA PREVENTION Another Expansion of the Preventive Horizon
  • 5 MIND’S FRAILTY Elements of a “Geriatric Logic” in the Clinical Discourse about Dementia Prevention
  • PART II From the Prediction and Early Detection to the Prevention of Dementia
  • 6 REVISITING MCI On Classificatory Drift
  • 7 THE PREVENTIVE UNCERTAINTY OF MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) The Experts, the Market, and the Subjects of Diagnosis
  • PART III Conceptual Premises and Normative Claims of Prevention
  • 8 STAGING PREVENTION, ARRESTING PROGRESS Chronic Disease Prevention and the Lifestyle Frame
  • 9 RESPONSIBILIZATION OF AGING? An Ethical Analysis of the Moral Economy of Prevention
  • 10 GOVERNING THROUGH PREVENTION Lifestyle and the Health Field Concept
  • AFTERWORD Looking Forward
  • INDEX