Journal: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
The latest meta-analyses and systematic reviews of epidemiological and clinical studies have provided compelling new evidence regarding the prevention, intervention, and care of people living with dementia. These syntheses identified modifiable factors which can impact on cognitive and physical reserve across the life course. These factors include multiple risk activities such as low education attainment, hearing loss, hypertension, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, and social isolation.
The strategies to abrogate the negative impacts of these factors are the basis for non-pharmacological approaches to reduce dementia risk, or to reduce the substantial neuropsychiatric burden. Of note, previous single-intervention failures stress the critical need for a new multimodal preventive approach where combinations of modifiable risk factors and disease mechanisms are targeted simultaneously. Further, there is increasing recognition that underserved ethnic groups have higher prevalence of modifiable risk factors than the country's majority population.
This call for articles aims to collect research articles and reviews describing the latest developments in the research and implementation of non-pharmacological approaches to reduce dementia and co-morbidities. We will consider original research articles, brief reports, protocols and review articles focusing on, but not strictly limited to, the following topics:
- Application of single/multi-modal non-pharmacological approaches to reduce risk or severity of dementia.
- Application of single/multi-modal non-pharmacological approaches to manage co-morbidities such as depression and other behavioural and psychological symptoms.
- Identification of the appropriate target groups and optimal timing for intervention, based on the differential impacts of biological sex or socio-ethnographic factors.
Please select the option “Call for Papers: Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Prevent, Intervene, and Care for People Living with Dementia” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.
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