“Bridging the divide between biomedical and psychosocial approaches in dementia research: the 2019 INTERDEM manifesto” was published on 26 November, in the journal Aging & Mental Health. The objective of this paper is to provide a new perspective on integrated biomedical and psychosocial dementia research, to significantly move forward the dementia research agenda. One rationale for integrating biomedical and psychosocial research, INTERDEM writes, is the discordance between neuropathology and cognitive functioning. The concept of social health may help to bridge the two paradigms. Their hypothesis is that social health can act as the driver for accessing cognitive reserve, in people with dementia “through active facilitation and utilization of social and environmental resources.” Read the full manifesto, here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RICIFNBZ9NDHYFRQDE3Q/full?target=10.1080/13607863.2019.1693968
Interdem is a pan-European network of researchers on early detection and psycho-social interventions in dementia: http://www.interdem.org
