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SUMMARY:Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies - Professor 
 Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Dementia is a topic of considerable public interest. How empir
 ical evidence has contributed to this societal awareness and indeed fear w
 ill be covered in this talk. It will span research from the 1980s when not
  much was understood about dementia up to contemporary perspectives. The f
 ocus will be on the epidemiological and public health evidence base\, and 
 how this relates to the results published from clinical and lab based rese
 arch. The findings from UK and other high income countries of reduced age 
 specific prevalence (%) will be explored\, and the implications of results
  from brain based studies that dementia is not inevitable in the presence 
 of ‘alzheimer’ type changes. The role of inequalities\, risk varying a
 cross countries and time and our knowledge about protective factors have s
 trengthened during recent years\, and the balance of high risk with whole 
 population approaches to reducing risk for society will be considered.
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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