Alzheimer’s Disease: Advances and Challenges
December 5, 2018
Families now provide the overwhelming majority of care for older people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and a team of researchers says such caregiving should be underpinned by expanded community-based support systems. Issues recently examined the practical improvements that have been made in caring for people with dementia—even as biomedical advances have lagged—and also the need to refocus research to look at the aging brain as a complex network that operates within a rich biosocial environment.