Prevention of Cognitive Impairments Through Architectural Design: Graduation Studio Designing for Health & Care ’Towards a Healthy and Inclusive Living Environment’

This paper has argued that the absence of inter-generational contact and a deficit of care-taking in communities leads to the societal exclusion of the elderly and increases the development of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, dementia and depression. Dementia is a pressing problem of our time. The number of people with dementia is constantly rising...

Dementia in the Built Environment

Grey Matter Age Prediction as a Biomarker for Risk of Dementia: A Population-based Study

The gap between predicted brain age and chronological age could serve as biomarker for early-stage neurodegeneration and as potentially as a risk indicator for dementia. We assess the utility of this age gap as a risk biomarker for incident dementia in a general elderly population. The brain age is estimated from longitudinal brain magnetic...