Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia
Learn how early detection and protecting brain health can help to reduce the risk of brain diseases that lead to dementia.
Who is the course for?
This course will appeal to anyone interested in understanding ways to tackle the dementia epidemic and protect brain health through proactively addressing risk factors and early disease detection.
The course is also designed for healthcare professionals looking to advance their professional development and build knowledge of the latest evidence-based brain health practices.
What topics will you cover?
How does the brain work and what goes wrong to cause neurodegenerative diseases?
How can we predict risk and detect disease early?
How can we manage risk factors and design interventions to improve brain health?
How must public health and clinical practice adapt to prevent dementia?
How do we act on a global scale to shift towards a culture of positive brain health?
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Develop an understanding of the pathological processes which underpin the diseases that lead to dementia, how these processes begin in mid-life and provide a window of opportunity to reduce risk of dementia in later life
Identify risk factors for neurodegenerative disease and explain that brain health can be protected through lifestyle choices and risk modification behaviours
Evaluate the latest methods in brain health research, including the design of clinical trials for interventions to prevent dementia
Explore the ways health data can be gathered and used to develop risk prediction tools for neurodegenerative disease that inform personalised prevention plans
Assess the public health and clinical practice actions needed to help improve brain health at a population and individual level and evaluate the impact of health inequalities on a local and global scale
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