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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia –  rhetoric and the evidence 
 base from an epidemiological perspective - Professor Carol Brayne
DTSTART:20250521T170000Z
DTEND:20250521T180000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:This talk will draw on four decades of population-based studie
 s based within communities. It will cover how contemporary rhetoric regard
 ing dementia and its subtypes has\, to a substantial degree\, become disco
 nnected from the reality of how dementia is experienced in ageing societie
 s. The talk will cover concepts such as prevalence and incidence\, risk an
 d protection and how upstream prevention fits with the current narratives 
 of early detection and much publicised potential therapies. It will also c
 over the challenges of how communities\, households and individuals are af
 fected by inequalities and inequities that have far reaching impact across
  generations. \n\nCarol is Professor Emeritus of Public Health Medicine at
  the University since 2024\, and was Director of the Institute of Public H
 ealth\, then co-director of the University’s Cambridge Public Health IRC
  until her retirement. She has led population studies of ageing population
 s for four decades. These multidisciplinary and multicentre studies have p
 rovided understanding of how dementia\, frailty\, healthy ageing are exper
 ienced in communities\, providing evidence from policy to biology. She has
  also been a leader within the public health community in the region and n
 ationally. Her contributions were recognised with a CBE in the Queen’s H
 onours in 2017\, Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and awards 
 from the Faculty of Public Health. \n\n"Register here":https://fitzroy.dar
 .cam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=98\n\n
LOCATION:Bradfield Room\, Darwin College
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