Situating the “new dementia” – context and diversity in dementia prevention

CCNA Talking Brains Webinar

Thursday, April 8, 2021 (12:30pm – 1:45pm ET)

Since the widely mediatized Lancet Report from 2017, nine (now 12) modifiable factors are intensively discussed as a possibility of lowering incidence (and maybe prevalence) rates for dementia. This talk provides a reflection about this hopeful message, by discussing ways of contextualizing this novelty in thinking about dementia; by looking at the same time, at macro- and micro factors related to this “new dementia” in different national contexts. An underlying question here is how insights from the social sciences – here, medical anthropology – might dialogue with more applied health sciences.

Our guest speaker, Annette Leibing, PhD, is a medical anthropologist, full professor and researcher at the Nursing Faculty of Université de Montréal. Her actual research focuses mainly on the prevention of dementia in different national and social contexts. She is the co-author of Critical perspectives on a new paradigm  of preparing for old age. New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2020.

Pre-registration is required to access the webinar.