DEMENTIA: OVERVIEW AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Associate Professor Sam Nightingale, neurologist, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town
Thursday 30 January 9.15 am COURSE FEES R110; Staff and Students R55
This lecture is part of the Neuroscience Institute’s series of five lectures.
By 2050 the number of people living with dementia is predicted to more than triple. Sub-Saharan Africa will experience the largest increases, as it has the fastest growing rates of older people in the world. This lecture will give an overview of dementia, its causes and its consequences. It will focus on Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, and explore what the study of people ageing with HIV can tell us about the mechanisms underlying this disease. Recently the first medications to treat Alzheimer’s disease have been approved. Although their benefit is currently modest, we will discuss whether this may herald a new era of dementia management.
Health professionals can earn CPD points for this course.
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