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The number of people living with dementia in Barbados is set to more than double in another 17 years unless urgent action is taken, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) which called for a National Dementia Plan to help reduce the incidence of the neurodegenerative condition.
It is part of a wider call to governments throughout the region, amid concerns that
Lyna Mohammad Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia are the most common types of dementia – a progressive degenerative brain syndrome affecting memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion – which account for 90 per cent of dementia cases, where reports stated that someone in the world develops dementia in every three seconds. This disease is also the […]
In a sweeping new report, Alzheimer’s and dementia experts are urgently calling for better treatment for patients and better education for health-care professionals, revealing that the majority of dementia patients receive little to no post-diagnosis care.