This book brings together information linking where people live, with their health. The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years; discusses in detail current issues concerning housing and health and describes attempts at housing particular groups whose health is at risk. Essential reading for those involved in the design and management of housing, and its public health aspects.

The concept of dementia has itself been the subject of increasing refinement and precision in definition and diagnosis. Two important sub-types have been identified: Alzheimer's disease and multiple-infarct dementia. Alzheimer's disease or Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDA T), arises out of changes in the brain which are as yet poorly understood and identifiable with certainty only at post mortem examination. This type of dementia has been named after Alois Alzheimer, who first identified these changes, in the earliest years of this century. Alzheimer's is the commonest type of...