Families are still expected to navigate disconnected health and community services on their own. A new report sets out what governments can do to change that.
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University
Dementia today occupies the same stigmatized, system-neglected space that cancer did half a century ago. And history shows us that stigma, not simply the absence of cures, delays progress.
Les risques de démence liés au mode de vie sont complexes. Des facteurs tels que le sommeil, l’exercice et l’alimentation interagissent avec la réserve cognitive, la neuroplasticité et l’inflammation.
Lifestyle-related dementia risks are complex, with factors like sleep, exercise, diet and social contact interacting with things like cognitive reserve, neuroplasticity and inflammation in the body.
Action is needed to hold off a wave of dementia cases in an aging population. One of the most effective tools to reduce the prevalence of dementia is to address modifiable factors.
Much dementia research does not reflect ethnically diverse communities. Studies used to make policy, clinical and investment decisions in dementia should reflect the diverse Canadian population.
Contact Saskia for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
