…Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD), talked about promoting a human rights-based approach to dementia through the active involvement of people with dementia. “Many people living with dementia are…
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…by dementia and to help reduce the population’s risk of getting dementia. “We are doing our best to live with dementia, not dying from it”, he said and stressed that…
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…people with dementia take shorter step lengths and demonstrate greater variability compared to older adults without dementia [16]. Gait analysis may also be an effective differential marker of dementia disease…
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…interactive sessions on dementia risk reduction and prevention, utilisation of information using the Dementia Intelligence Network, workplace development for person and relationship centred dementia care, embedding dementia research into clinical…
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…Prevalence. Dementia Statistics Hub https://www.dementiastatistics.org/statistics-about-dementia/prevalence-2/ (2022). England, NHS. NHS England » dementia. https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/dementia/. Challenge on dementia 2020:implementation plan. Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/challenge-on-dementia-2020-implementation-plan (2016). Toh C-H. Enabling an equitable spread of research access,…
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…the interest in dementia was ignited by the publication of the National Dementia Strategy in 2009, energised by the first Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia in 2012 and fuelled by…
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…The first of these, “Dementia in a changing world”, saw a panel discussion including Adelina Comas Herrera, co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) project; Mario…
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…in dementia diagnosis. The second day of Dementias 2019 opened with a keynote address titled ‘What can epidemiology can tell us about dementia?’. Professor Carol Brayne, Professor of Immunology at…
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…at a range of types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. The researchers will also look at whether the blood tests can…
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