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Developing Dementia Care Models that Involve Experts From Many Different Fields

What is it about?

Dementia, of which the most frequent form is Alzheimer’s disease, is a chronic and terminal condition with multi-factorial causes and numerous consequences on a patient’s life. Combining perspectives from different disciplines seems necessary to address the connections between cognitive symptoms, biological processes, treatment, lifestyle, and caregiving in order to reach the aim of developing a holistic, person-centered, patient-first approach.

Why is it important?

With this paper, we raise some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order to initiate an interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary research agenda and to integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives in dementia care and research.

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