Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and
policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after
World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today-and
how do we improve brain health in the future? Winner of the
American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest,
Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book
Awards For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure
for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying
biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that
dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and
Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And
what does it mean for brain health in the future? In American
Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD,
PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly
linked to mid-twentieth century policies that reduced inequality,
provided widespread access to education and healthcare, and brought
about cleaner air, soil, and water. They also * explain why
Alzheimer's disease, an obscure clinical label until the 1970s, is
the hallmark illness of our current hyper-capitalist era; * reveal
how the soaring inequalities of the twenty-first century-which are
sowing poverty, barriers to healthcare and education, loneliness,
lack of sleep, stressful life events, environmental exposures, and
climate change-are reversing the gains of the twentieth century and
damaging our brains; * tackle the ageist tendencies in our culture,
which disadvantage both vulnerable youth and elders; * make an
evidence-based argument that policies like single-payer healthcare,
a living wage, and universal access to free higher education and
technical training programs will build collective resilience to
dementia; * promote strategies that show how local communities can
rise above the disconnection and loneliness that define our present
moment and come together to care for our struggling neighbors.
Ultimately, American Dementia asserts that actively remembering
lessons from the twentieth century which help us become a
healthier, wiser, and more compassionate society represents our
most powerful intervention for preventing Alzheimer's and
protecting human dignity. Exposing the inconvenient truths that
confound market-based approaches to memory enhancement as well as
broader social organization, the book imagines how we can act as
citizens to protect our brains, build the cognitive resilience of
younger generations, and rise to the moral challenge of caring for
the cognitively frail.
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