Preventing dementia? Critical perspectives on a paradigm of preparing for old age

Over recent years, dementia has slipped ever earlier into the lifecourse. As popular aetiological hypotheses have faltered, various stakeholders have suggested that underlying pathologies begin decades before cognitive impairment. This has amplified interest in preventive strategies, targeting midlife interventions at future dementias. Preventing dementia offers timely critical insight into this 'new dementia' – a predictable and preventable midlife disease process. All academics in dementia studies will benefit from this book, and while background knowledge is required to get the most out of it, there is also considerable fodder for scholars across the medical social sciences, that is the reconceptualisation of ageing and the limits of responsibilisation.