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"Societies around the world are concerned about dementia and the other forms of cognitive impairment that affect many older adults. We now know that brain changes typically begin years before people show symptoms, which suggests a window of opportunity to prevent or delay the onset of these conditions. Emerging evidence that the prevalence of dementia is declining in high-income countries offers hope that public health interventions will be effective...

EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How can we use evidence to improve deradicalisation and violence prevention outcomes?Based on work developed during the implementation of the cross-European INDEED project, this is an essential reference book for practitioners, researchers and policy makers. It sets out the three pillars of best evidence-based practice - scientific evidence, professional judgement and consideration of clients'...

"To raise awareness of all members of the community - children, parents and school staff about the harm that bullying causes and how children & young people can be protected, including solutions to the problem of rising incidents of bullying and cyber bullying in connection with the use of social networks. This book will improve strategies and responses to incidences of bullying that will address the causes and effects of bullying and help avoid any...

Tanzen in Verbindung mit anderen und kreativen Bewegungen führt zu einer einzigartigen Verknüpfung körperlicher, geistiger und sozialer Aktivitäten und kann bis ins hohe Alter viel Freude bereiten! Es ist zu vermuten, dass die Bewegung zur Musik, weil diese so vielfältig anregend ist, uns vor frühzeitigem Altern und Demenz schützen kann. Tanzen schafft einen direkten Zugang zum Gehirn mit all seiner Komplexität. Das REMIND-Programm...

This book looks at the problem of why so many professional and amateur athletes kill themselves. Professional athletes lead what seem to us to be glamorous lives and make large, and sometimes huge, salaries. In schools, the athletes are often the formal and informal leaders, given recognition and honors. News of their suicides shocks us because, to the rest of us, these are the successful members of our society, often looked up to as heroes and role...

A temática da gestão da segurança constitui um campo de desafios e remete, inicialmente, ao aspecto da construção social desse problema das violências e sua problematizarão sociológica. O livro se propõe a realizar uma reflexão sobre o campo do conhecimento da gestão da segurança pública, sob diversas óticas, agregando-se evidências empíricas e teóricas obtidas através da complementação de dados de pesquisas científicas e de um...

Within the general framework of the European TRIVALENT project, the comparative analysis presented here focuses, alongside policy measures taken at EU level, on counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies implemented by five European countries; namely, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. These case studies with their peculiarities and differences offer insights into the role of long-term and structural factors in defining...