Verfasst von:	George, Daniel R. [VerfasserIn]
	Whitehouse, Peter J. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	American dementia
Titelzusatz:	brain health in an unhealthy society
Verf.angabe:	Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD
Verlagsort:	Baltimore
Verlag:	Johns Hopkins University Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	xviii, 404 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-4214-4047-7
	1-4214-4047-4
Abstract:	Chapter 1. Occupy Alzheimer's! Setting the Scene for Resistance -- Chapter 2. Alzheimer's and the Neoliberal Turn: "Politics of Anguish," Visions of a Cure -- Chapter 3 -- Azheimer's Today: Inconvenient Truths in the 'Marketplace of Memory' -- Chapter 4 -- "Treating Populations": Collectively Strengthening the Brain Health of the Many, Not the Few -- Chapter 5 -- 'Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water': What the Lead-Poisoning Tragedy in Michigan Means for Alzheimer's -- Chapter 6 -- #PoorLivesMatter: Fighting Poverty to Resist Alzheimer's -- Chapter 7 -- Turning up the Heat on Global Warming: The Neurologic Costs of Climate Change -- Chapter 8 -- Occupy the Nursing Home! Breaking Down Walls and Breaking Out 'Socialceuticals' -- Chapter 9 -- A Bridge beyond Loneliness: The Gathering Momentum of Age- and DementiaFriendly Communities -- Chapter 10 -- The Intergenerational Schools: Desegregating and Revaluing the Cognitively Frail.
	"The authors argue for a strong connection between public health and social policies that have boosted access to education; quality health care; cleaner air, soil, and water; and a reduction in Alzheimer's disease and dementia. They question the assumption of many that developing a pharmaceutical cure is the best hope for addressing Alzheimer's"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781421440477.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Sozialmedizin    / (s)Public Health    / (s)Alzheimerkrankheit
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	YH 5400
Sach-SW:	Alzheimer's disease ; Economic aspects
	Alzheimer's disease ; Government policy
	Alzheimer's disease ; Social aspects
	Right to health
Geograph. SW:	United States
K10plus-PPN:	174910332X