Lancet · 2020

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

Livingston G, Huntley J, Sommerlad A, Ames D, Ballard C, Banerjee S, Brayne C, Burns A, Cohen-Mansfield J, Cooper C, Costafreda SG, Dias A, Fox N, Gitlin LN, Howard R, Kales HC, Kivimäki M, Larson EB, Ogunniyi A, Orgeta V, Ritchie K, Rockwood K, Sampson EL, Samus Q, Schneider LS, Selbæk G, Teri L, Mukadam N.

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  • Livingston G — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: g.livingston@ucl.ac.uk.
  • Huntley J — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Sommerlad A — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Ames D — National Ageing Research Institute and Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
  • Ballard C — University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
  • Banerjee S — Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
  • Brayne C — Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
  • Burns A — Department of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  • Cohen-Mansfield J — Department of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Heczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Cooper C — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Costafreda SG — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Dias A — Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Goa Medical College, Goa, India.
  • Fox N — Dementia Research Centre, UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London, London, UK; Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Gitlin LN — Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA.
  • Howard R — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Kales HC — Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA.
  • Kivimäki M — Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
  • Larson EB — Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • Ogunniyi A — University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • Orgeta V — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK.
  • Ritchie K — Inserm, Unit 1061, Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research, La Colombière Hospital, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Rockwood K — Centre for the Health Care of Elderly People, Geriatric Medicine Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  • Sampson EL — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health Trust, London, UK.
  • Samus Q — Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA.
  • Schneider LS — Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioural Sciences and Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Selbæk G — Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Geriatric Department, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
  • Teri L — Department Psychosocial and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • Mukadam N — Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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