Central to this year's World Alzheimer's Day campaign is the active participation of people with dementia
From Australia to Alaska, thousands of people will gather in countries around the world on Tuesday 21 September to mark World Alzheimer's Day and urge their governments to make dementia a higher healthcare priority.
This year's World Alzheimer's Day 'No time to lose' campaign, coordinated by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), comes in response to findings from the recent pan-European Facing Dementia Survey in which 87% of carers and 71% of physicians felt their governments do not invest enough in treating dementia.
Stephen DeKosky, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh said, 'Presently, there are an estimated 18 million people around the world with dementia; 4.5 million of whom live in the US. We know that the number of people with dementia is set to almost double to 34 million over the next 25 years. Although much of this increase will be in rapidly developing and heavily populated regions, we estimate there will be 7.7 million people with dementia in the US by 2030.'
ADI is calling governments to recognise the challenges of an ageing population by providing better support services.
From (news-medical.net)