World Alzheimer Written Report 2011
World Alzheimer Report 2011 Shows Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer’s Disease Has Health, Financial And Social Benefits
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To laid upward the report, titled “The Benefits of Early Diagnosis in addition to Intervention,” ADI commissioned a squad of researchers led past times Prof. Martin Prince at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, to undertake the first-ever, comprehensive, systematic review of all of the evidence on early on diagnosis in addition to early on intervention for dementia.
Currently, the peachy bulk of people with dementia have a diagnosis belatedly inwards the course of teaching of the disease, if at all, resulting inwards a substantial “treatment gap.” This greatly limits their access to valuable information, treatment, care, in addition to back upward in addition to compounds problems for all involved — patients, families, carers, communities in addition to wellness systems.
“There is no unmarried way to closed the handling gap worldwide,” said Prof. Prince, the principal writer of the report. “What is clear is that every province needs a national dementia strategy that promotes early on diagnosis in addition to a continuum of attention thereafter. Primary attention services, specialist diagnostic in addition to handling centers in addition to community-based services all possess got a share to play, only to differing degrees depending upon resources.”
“Failure to diagnose Alzheimer’s inwards a timely trend represents a tragic missed chance to amend the lineament of life for millions of people,” said Dr. Daisy Acosta, Chairman of ADI. “It alone adds to an already massive global health, social, in addition to financial challenge — ane nosotros promise to come across inwards the spotlight at side past times side week’s UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases.”
The novel ADI study reveals the following:
- As many every bit three-quarters of the estimated 36 1000000 people worldwide living with dementia possess got non been diagnosed in addition to thus cannot practise goodness from treatment, data in addition to care. In high-income countries, alone 20-50% of dementia cases are recognized in addition to documented inwards primary care. In low- in addition to middle-income countries, this proportion could survive every bit depression every bit 10%.
- Failure to diagnose oft results from the simulated belief that dementia is a normal share of aging, in addition to that null tin survive done to help. On the contrary, the novel study finds that interventions tin brand a difference, fifty-fifty inwards the early on stages of the illness.
- Drugs in addition to psychological interventions for people with early-stage dementia tin amend cognition, independence, in addition to lineament of life. Support in addition to counseling for caregivers tin amend mood, trim back strain in addition to delay institutionalization of people with dementia.
- Governments, concerned virtually the ascent costs of long-term attention linked to dementia, should “spend straight off to salvage later.” Based on a review of economical analyses, the study estimates that before diagnosis could yield cyberspace savings of upward to US$10,000 per patient inwards high-income countries.
“Over the past times year, the query squad has reviewed thousands of scientific studies detailing the impact of early on diagnosis in addition to treatment, in addition to nosotros possess got constitute evidence to advise existent benefits for patients in addition to caregivers,” said Marc Wortmann, Executive Director of ADI. “Earlier diagnosis tin likewise transform the pattern in addition to execution of clinical trials to exam novel treatments. But start nosotros involve to ensure that people possess got access to the effective interventions that are already proven in addition to available, which agency that wellness systems involve to survive prepared, trained in addition to skilled to furnish timely in addition to accurate diagnoses, communicated sensitively, with appropriate support.”
To that end, ADI recommends that every province possess got a national Alzheimer’s/dementia strategy that promotes early on diagnosis in addition to intervention. More specifically, governments must:
- Promote basic competency with physicians in addition to other wellness attention professionals inwards early on detection of dementia inwards primary attention services.
- Where feasible, practise networks of specialist diagnostic centers to confirm early-stage dementia diagnosis in addition to formulate attention management plans.
- In resource-poor settings, apply the World Health Organization
’s of late developed guidelines for diagnosis in addition to initial management past times non-specialist wellness workers.
- Publicize the availability of evidence-based interventions that are effective inwards improving cognitive function, treating depression, improving caregiver mood in addition to delaying institutionalization.
- Increase investment inwards research—especially randomized command trials to exam drugs before in addition to over longer periods of time, in addition to to exam the efficacy of interventions with particular relevance to early-stage dementia.
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About dementia in addition to Alzheimer’s disease
Dementia is a syndrome that tin survive caused past times a seat out of progressive disorders that touching memory, thinking, demeanor in addition to the mightiness to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer’s illness is the most mutual drive of dementia. www.alz.co.uk/about-dementia.
According to the World Alzheimer Report 2009, the seat out of people with dementia is forecast to nearly double every xx years—from 36 1000000 inwards 2010 to 115 1000000 inwards 2050. According to the World Alzheimer Report 2010, the costs associated with dementia totaled US$604 billion, virtually 1% of global GDP.
Read the report
The Executive Summary highlights the principal findings, in addition to briefly describes the evidence that supports them. The amount Report documents the methodology in addition to the sources inwards greater detail, in addition to includes a careful critique of the quality, the relevance in addition to the pull of the available evidence.
World Alzheimer Report 2011 - Executive Summary (PDF, 36 pages, 1128KB)
World Alzheimer Report 2011 (PDF, 72 pages, 1710KB)
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