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New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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New Directions in Understanding Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 282
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The management of Alzheimer's Disease and the related dementias is
one of the major challenges to health care professionals and
American society-at-large for the coming decade and the coming
millennium. The rapid growth of the over-eighty-five population,
the group which, as recent studies have confirmed and as many of us
clinicians have long suspected, has an even higher prevalence than
previously quoted of dementing disorders, is the major cause of
this. We are thus challenged by, as Bernard Issacs used to call it,
"the survival of the unfittest," as well as the oPtimistic approach
of "bringing life to years," as John F. Kennedy said. The fact is
that we, as a society, tend to confuse "treatment" and "cure" (and
"prevention"). As the proceedings of the conference which this book
represents emphasize, there is considerable work going on about the
potential prevention of, or at least the reduction of,
symptomatology in these illnesses by interventions genetically,
chemIcally, and so forth. However, the more we find out, the more
complicated it becomes, and the more heterogeneous Alzheimer's and
the related disorders appear to be, not only in their
manifestations (as clinicians have long recognized) but also in the
individual initiating and underlying processes. For these reasons,
absolute preventive techniques or the likelihood of an intervention
which will reverse the process in a high proportion of patients, do
not appear to be just around the corner.
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