Preventing dementia? : critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age / Annette Leibing, Silke Schicktanz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schicktanz, Silke, editor.

Leibing, Annette, editor.

Series:

Life course, culture and aging

Life course, culture and aging: Global transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia--Prevention.

Dementia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn, [2021]

Summary:

"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. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies"-- Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781789209105

1789209102