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A call to action: the global response to dementia through policy innovation
- Authors:
- RUBINSTEIN Ellis, et al
- Publisher:
- World Innovation Summit for Health
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 56
- Place of publication:
- Doha
Outlines key issues in understanding dementia and the need to tackle the burden globally. The report identifies and discusses effective approaches and innovative solutions, including: mobilising society to increase awareness, education and participation; prevention and risk reduction to decrease prevalence of dementia; diagnosis and care innovations to improve quality of life; health and social care systems optimised for dementia care; cure or disease-modifying treatments to minimise disease burden; research, trials and regulatory pathways to accelerate drug development; and innovative finance mechanisms to increase funding across the arc of disease management. The report makes recommendations to policymakers to accelerate prevention, improve care and treatments, and potentially cure the diseases that lead to dementia. (Edited publisher abstract)
Making up for lost times
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.5.03, 2003, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the advances in diagnosis and treatment for people with dementia. Explains how, although access to services are improving, the Bill for long-term care could be huge with consequent uncertainty for sufferers.
Death duties
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.1.96, 1996, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The hospice movement has strongly denied claims it shows preferential treatment to client groups which attract funding easily. Investigates whether elderly people are being neglected as a result.
The economic and social cost of dementia in Ireland
- Authors:
- O'SHEA Eamon, O'REILLY Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(3), March 2000, pp.208-218.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The economic and social burden of dementia on society is the value of all the resources used to prevent, diagnose, treat, and generally cope with the illness. This article assess the overall resource implications of dementia in Ireland. Six main areas are covered in the cost analysis as follows: mortality and life years lost, in-patient acute care, in-patient psychiatric care, residential long-stay care, family care, and primary and social care in the community. The critical role of carers in maintaining people with dementia in their own home is reflected in the results showing that family care accounts for almost 50 percent of the overall resource burden, based on an opportunity cost valuation of carer time.
Cognitive disability and direct care costs for elderly people
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Shane, KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174(6), June 1999, pp.539-546.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Population ageing and the high costs of care support for elderly people have concentrated attention on economic issues. Examines whether there is an association between costs and cognitive disability by comparing service utilisation and direct costs for elderly people with different degrees of cognitive disability, and between people living in households and in communal establishments. Discusses how population ageing is closely associated with higher utilisation of health and social care services, and how new treatment or service arrangements provoke debate about their cost implications. The study aims to provide 'benchmark' information to inform debates about the potential costs of various treatment and service charges.