Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia

50 million people worldwide currently live with dementia. This number is projected to increase to over 150 million by the year 2050.  

A dementia diagnosis represents an advanced stage of disease, with the brain diseases that lead to dementia actually beginning many years before symptoms emerge. This provides a window of opportunity to reduce the risk of dementia by proactively protecting our brain health.  

This course offers an up-to-date exploration of dementia prevention, from early disease detection to positive brain health promotion. 

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Develop an understanding of the pathological processes which underpin the diseases that lead to dementia, how these processes begin in mid-life and provide a window of opportunity to reduce risk of dementia in later life
• Identify risk factors for neurodegenerative disease and explain that brain health can be protected through lifestyle choices and risk modification behaviours
• Evaluate the latest methods in brain health research, including the design of clinical trials for interventions to prevent dementia
• Explore the ways health data can be gathered and used to develop risk prediction tools for neurodegenerative disease that inform personalised prevention plans
• Assess the public health and clinical practice actions needed to help improve brain health at a population and individual level and evaluate the impact of health inequalities on a local and global scale 

This course is for healthcare professionals and the general public who would like to learn how to protect their brain health. 

Introductory: No previous knowledge required