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S1‐03‐04: Dietary factors and dementia
Author(s) -
BarbergerGateau Pascale,
Feart Catherine,
Samieri Cecilia
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.211
Subject(s) - mediterranean diet , polyunsaturated fatty acid , dementia , nutrient , food science , biology , cognitive decline , red meat , fish oil , disease , medicine , environmental health , fatty acid , biochemistry , fish <actinopterygii> , ecology , fishery
Background: Public Health professionals espouse prevention models from primary to tertiary interventions. In the context of dementia, primary prevention includes building cognitive reserve to provide resilience in the face of brain change. Secondary prevention includes interventions intended to maintain function in persons at high risk for progression to dementia. This presentation will focus on projects that represent examples of each. Methods: First will be described a multisite randomized controlled double-blind treatment trial to investigate the efficacy of computerized cognitive training program in 487 normal older adults. The computer training paradigm appeared to create benefits that generalized measures of memory and attention more than an active control program. The second project is a memory compensatory strategy using external aides that involved over 50 patients with amnestic MCI. Results: The computer training paradigm appeared to create benefits that generalized measures of memory and attentionmore than an active control program. In theMCI patients of thememory compensation program sustained functional status in the face of cognitive decline. Conclusions: Both primary prevention building cognitive reserve to provide resilience in the face of brain change and secondary prevention includes interventions intended to maintain function in persons with MCI appear viable.