Epidemiologia e riabilitazione della malattia di Alzheimer: un approccio psicosociale

Abstract

Epidemiology and Rehabilitation of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Psychosocial Approach - The improvement of the welfare conditions that has characterized the high-income societies after the II World War and the increase in brain and cognitive resources through which people face aging, could mitigate in the future the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the prevalent among all dementias. Nevertheless, the estimations of prevalence and incidence of this disease still acknowledge about dramatic decline especially regarding the relationship between the number of people affected and the number of healthy people able to care for them as informal caregivers. The aptitude to address these changes through health / social services is limited by the lack of effective models of interventions. The research in the psychosocial field oriented to the integrated assessment of personality suggests interesting perspectives in the preventive, clinical and rehabilitation care.

Keywords

• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Epidemiology
• Dementia
• Rehabilitation
• Health Care Service