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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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ;
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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