title: [Preventive approaches to dementia].
abstract: Prevalence and incidence of dementia increase with demographic aging. Benefits of current antidementia drugs are modest, both in cognitive and functional domains. Therefore, interest is growing to evaluate the effects of interventions aiming at preventing cognitive decline and, ideally, dementia onset. Cognitive training and physical activity seem promising. This paper describes recent studies that assessed the benefits of preventive strategies in the domain of dementia, especially in Alzheimer's disease.
authors.affiliation: Départment de médecine, CHUV, Lausanne. Stephan.Eyer@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eyer
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: von Gunten
authors.forename: Stéfanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monod
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Büla
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003704:Dementia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans