Setting Up a Cognitive Training Service for Egyptian Older Adults.
J Alzheimers Dis
; 79(4): 1673-1682, 2021.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
With greying of nations, dementia becomes a public health priority. The rising dementia prevalence escalates both health care expenses and burden, placing the entire healthcare system and caregivers under huge stress. Cognition-oriented interventions have been shown to enhance the overall cognitive performance among healthy and cognitively impaired older adults.OBJECTIVE:
This article is assumed to be a steppingstone for the introduction and establishment of cognition- oriented interventions in Egypt. In addition, it aims to offer provisional guidance for health care providers in Arab speaking countries in a stepwise approach in order to establish cognition-oriented intervention services and help them to evaluate and monitor their efficacy.METHODS:
Aconsortium of Egyptian and Greek specialists developed a protocol for the operations of the Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab and the provision of cognition-oriented interventions. This protocol is based on a previous successful protocol that has been implemented in Greece for more than 10 years and is co-designed to fit the needs of older adults in Arabic speaking countries.RESULTS:
The types of services offered, their objectives, recruitment of participants, delivery of interventions, measurement of outcomes and privacy policy are all outlined in the policy.CONCLUSION:
Establishing the appropriate framework in which cognitive training strategies can be adapted and implemented in Arabic population, constitutes an inevitable achievement in healthy ageing and can be also assumed as a dementia prevention strategy. Moreover, setting up the first cognitive laboratory in Egypt older adults, can be a model of good practice across the Arabic countries.Mots clés
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Collection:
01-internacional
Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Guides de bonnes pratiques cliniques comme sujet
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Dysfonctionnement cognitif
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Rééducation neurologique
Type d'étude:
Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limites:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Pays/Région comme sujet:
Africa
Langue:
En
Journal:
J Alzheimers Dis
Sujet du journal:
GERIATRIA
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NEUROLOGIA
Année:
2021
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
Égypte