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This book brings together information linking where people live,
with their health. The author reviews how housing has influenced
health throughout the past hundred and fifty years; discusses in
detail current issues concerning housing and health and describes
attempts at housing particular groups whose health is at risk.
Essential reading for those involved in the design and management
of housing, and its public health aspects. This book should be of
interest to environmental health officers, town planners, social
administrators, community doctors, architects, and housing
managers.
This book links where people live with their health. The author
reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past
hundred and fifty years, discusses in detail current issues
concerning housing and health and describes attempts at housing
particular groups whose health is at risk.
The concept of dementia has itself been the subject of increasing
refinement and precision in definition and diagnosis. Two important
sub-types have been identified: Alzheimer's disease and
multiple-infarct dementia. Alzheimer's disease or Senile Dementia
of the Alzheimer Type (SDA T), arises out of changes in the brain
which are as yet poorly understood and identifiable with certainty
only at post mortem examination. This type of dementia has been
named after Alois Alzheimer, who first identified these changes, in
the earliest years of this century. Alzheimer's is the commonest
type of identified dementia. The second commonest type is
multi-infarct dementia (MID), which follows a stroke or strokes
affecting the relevant part of the brain. Like SDA T, it can be
diagnosed with certainty only after death, although Jorm (1987, Ch.
8) reviews progress in using various types of tests which can
suggest, if not confirm, its presence during the sufferer's
lifetime. As will be shown in Chapter 2, some populations appear to
reverse the general picture and exhibit more MID than SDAT. Many
dementia sufferers cannot, even after a post-mortem examination, be
neatly categorized as one or the other of these sub-types. A
considerable uncertain 'grey area' of dementia remains at present
very poorly understood. Some elderly people develop dementia as a
side-effect of known physical disease. Some of these conditions are
curable. Care of the demented person has traditionally taken place
in the community: hospitalization is a fairly recent innovation.
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