Developing a global strategy to prevent Alzheimer's disease: Leon Thal Symposium 2010.

Publication Type	Academic Article
Authors	Khachaturian Z, Petersen R, Snyder P, Khachaturian A, Aisen P, de Leon M, Greenberg B, Kukull W, Maruff P, Sperling R, Stern Y, Touchon J, Vellas B, Andrieu S, Weiner M, Carrillo M, Bain L
Journal	Alzheimers Dement
Volume	7
Issue	2
Pagination	127-32
Date Published	03/01/2011
ISSN	1552-5279
Keywords	Alzheimer Disease, Global Health, Preventive Medicine
Abstract	The fourth Leon Thal Symposium (LTS2010) was convened in Toulouse, France, on November 3, 2010. This symposium reviewed design parameters that are necessary to develop comprehensive national databases on healthy aging. Such datasets offer the potential to serve as the foundation for a systems-approach to solve the dual public health problems of: (1) early detection of people who are at elevated risk for Alzheimer's disease, and (2) the development of interventions to delay onset of, or prevent, late-life dementia. The symposium considered three interrelated components of a National Database for Longitudinal Studies on Healthy Aging as follows: (a) a registry of healthy aging adults; (b) refined computer-based assessments for data gathering, including assessments of behavioral/memory changes associated with aging that are appropriate for broad use in nonexpert settings; and (c) high performance computing/supercomputer-based approaches for health data modeling and mining.
DOI	10.1016/j.jalz.2011.02.005
PubMed ID	21414553