Alzheimer's disease: Potential preventive, non-invasive, intervention strategies in lowering the risk of cognitive decline – A review study

Publication date: Available online 20 August 2015 Source:Journal of Applied Biomedicine Author(s): Blanka Klimova, Kamil Kuca The number of elderly people nowadays is rapidly increasing, especially in the developed countries. According to the Eurostat agency, the number of aging population will double in the following fifty years. This brings about serious problems such as occurrence of diseases connected with aging population. The most frequent aging disease seems to be dementia, out of which the most common is Alzheimer's disease (AD). The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the individual phases of this disease with special focus on the preclinical stage of AD since in this phase people might be already affected by some brain changes but they are still mentally and physically healthy individuals. Thus, the main goal of this article is to explore the preventive, non-invasive, intervention strategies which can help people already in the preclinical period of AD to lower the risk of cognitive decline and in this way enable them to stay independent on the assistance of other people and constantly attempt to improve quality of their life even in the older age. The authors exploit traditional research methods in order to meet the set goal. Firstly, a method of literature review analyzing the data contained in the world's prestigious scientific database: Web of Science in the period of 1990–2014 is used. The analysis concentrates on the occurrence of the key ...
Source: Journal of Applied Biomedicine - Category: Biotechnology Source Type: research