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How can a relatively small number of years of formal education occurring early in life affect risk for dementia in old age? This review advances the literature by providing a broad systematic review of both dementia prevalence and incidence studies.
Jul 30, 2020 · Research presented at the 2020 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference suggests that higher quality early-life education is linked to better language and memory performance, and lower risk of dementia.
Jul 23, 2010 · Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their education, the researchers found that more education makes people better able to cope with changes in the brain associated with dementia.
Jul 26, 2021 · For example: What mediates the association between years of education in early life and dementia in late life? Does education have a direct effect on brain development, or does its impact come through its effects on income, access to health care, health behaviors, or other factors, or some combination of these and other factors?
- Cognitive Board on Behavioral, Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias
- 2021/07/26
- 2021
The education-cognition relations can be at least explained by participation in activities in later life. With regard to the cognitive impairment stage, our post-hoc analysis showed that no cognitive tests exhibited a significant age×education interaction in MCI patients (Supplementary Table 3). Higher education levels may decrease the risk of ...
Ensuring an informed and effective dementia workforce is of international concern; however, there remains limited understanding of how this can be achieved. This review aimed to identify features of effective dementia educational programs.
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When paid care providers working with Indigenous individuals living with dementia were asked which dementia guidance topics they were using regularly, the most common topics were treatment and management (77%), prevention (56%), and screening and diagnosis (50%).
