TY  - CHAP
AU  - Winnie Sun
AU  - Srija Biswas
AU  - Michelle Dacanay
AU  - Ping Zou
ED  - Denis Larrivee
Y1  - 2019-03-01
PY  - 2019
T1  - An Examination of Factors Influencing Equitable Access to Dementia Care and Support Programs among Migrants and Refugees Living with Dementia: A Literature Review
N2  - It is fair to say that no brain disease occupies more research study today than Alzheimer's disease (AD). Among the many excellent reasons for this circumstance are the bleak prognosis and relentless progression; large cohorts of baby boomers entering an age of greatly increased cognitive risk; and spectacular advances in medical care that have prolonged lifespan. Often unattributed is the success of the research enterprise that has instilled confidence in AD's ultimate defeat. Yet, despite decades of intense research, AD remains poorly understood, an enigma amid a tide of neuroscientific advance. What these inconclusive results apparently call into question is an understanding of cognition that views it from the bottom up - the study of which is eminently suited by the scientific method - and that dispenses with a philosophy of biology concerned with how organismal properties operate, for which cognition is the medium. Culled from AD's new and old research archives, the chapters in this text accordingly lay out an argument for strategically new pathways that wander through cognition's global terrain and that may ultimately offer surer ground for AD treatment.
BT  - Redirecting Alzheimer Strategy
SP  - Ch. 7
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84858
DO  - 10.5772/intechopen.84858
SN  - 978-1-78984-010-0
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-18
ER  -