EDITORIAL article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Aging Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1612550
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Potential of a Multifactorial Perspective on DementiaView all 9 articles
Editorial: The Potential of a Multifactorial Perspective on Dementia
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- 3IQ Health Science Department Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Dementia research is seeing a paradigm shift from a biological to a multifactorial perspective. The 12 recognition of dementia as a multifactorial disorder has encouraged the exploration of new pathways 13 to understand mechanisms related to onset and progression, as well as treatment options. The 14 identification of potentially modifiable dementia risk factors by Livingston et al. (1) and its estimate 15 of a 45% risk reduction through prevention efforts has been a major impetus to find new avenues to 16 prevent dementia. This perspective also challenges the paradigm of dementia as a non-avoidable 17 disaster and introduces the new paradigm of a pro-active approach to prevent cognitive decline and 18 dementia, and modulate dementia progression. In recent years, the role of social factors in the onset 19 and the progression of dementia has become more important and several studies outline the impact of 20 social factors on prevention and care
Keywords: Social health, Dementia, prevention, Lived experience, cognitive decline
Received: 15 Apr 2025; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, IQ Health Science Department Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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