Dementia is a chronic and progressive syndrome related to various brain illnesses that have a severe effect on critical brain functions such as thinking, memory as well as behavior and the adverse effect on the patient's ability to handle day to day activities.
According to the Fight Dementia Organization, there were an estimated 220 050 people living with dementia in 2007 and the figure is expected to escalate to around 465 460 in 2030. As the future of this epidemic is this grim, based on the figures, there is every need to explore the implications of the impetus created by past and current research endeavors in this health domain with special spotlight on the research and the future of dementia.
Although Alzheimer disease is widely associated with dementia clinical conditions, not all dementia patients develop Alzheimer. Some patients may have dementia while never developed Alzheimer. Dementia researches that try to associate Alzheimer usually show a bell shaped result from patients under study.
What is important to note at this collective stage of research is that more sustainable funding is required. Research in the field of dementia needs to be intensified up to the same level with cancer and other cardiovascular epidemics. This can only be achieved with more funding invested in this field.
The observed differences between people who score low in cognitive tests and don't develop dementia poses future research questions. Dementia study is also complicated in a way because it largely depends on memory tests. Age, sex, race and education are also factors that can show differences in cognitive memory tests regardless of whether the patients have developed dementia or not.
Future research endeavors will be underpinned on the ultimate goal of enhancing prevention measures, diagnosis, care and treatment of dementia. Previous researches conducted in this domain have also created a drive for discovery science as well as the use of experimental medicine. This can be implemented in the direction of picking up new targets for therapeutic development. Future work in this discipline will involve developing successful or prospectively successful compounds to advanced level trials.
Future research work is expected to take a more open form that allows integration of research endeavors with public service. This is expected to increase public participation in the core of dementia research as a bid to increase awareness on the diseases while underscoring the role that research plays in stepping up to the challenges of dementia.
Current dementia and Alzheimer management don't take into account the different categories of patients. Sometimes every patient has a unique mental condition and that will require custom management. Mental conditions worsen with age. Therefore, patients are not always of the same age and custom dementia management is justified.
Current medical technology gives patients hope for custom dementia treatment. Accurate diagnosis for the same is also possible at the earliest known stage. Studies confirm that, mental patients can get assistance at an earlier stage. This way dementia management will be easy and patients instead of being study subjects with have a cure. Current medical technologies including genome sequencing and molecular documentations are able to bring out dementia cases at an individual level and as earlier as the first mild signs.
According to the Fight Dementia Organization, there were an estimated 220 050 people living with dementia in 2007 and the figure is expected to escalate to around 465 460 in 2030. As the future of this epidemic is this grim, based on the figures, there is every need to explore the implications of the impetus created by past and current research endeavors in this health domain with special spotlight on the research and the future of dementia.
Although Alzheimer disease is widely associated with dementia clinical conditions, not all dementia patients develop Alzheimer. Some patients may have dementia while never developed Alzheimer. Dementia researches that try to associate Alzheimer usually show a bell shaped result from patients under study.
What is important to note at this collective stage of research is that more sustainable funding is required. Research in the field of dementia needs to be intensified up to the same level with cancer and other cardiovascular epidemics. This can only be achieved with more funding invested in this field.
The observed differences between people who score low in cognitive tests and don't develop dementia poses future research questions. Dementia study is also complicated in a way because it largely depends on memory tests. Age, sex, race and education are also factors that can show differences in cognitive memory tests regardless of whether the patients have developed dementia or not.
Future research endeavors will be underpinned on the ultimate goal of enhancing prevention measures, diagnosis, care and treatment of dementia. Previous researches conducted in this domain have also created a drive for discovery science as well as the use of experimental medicine. This can be implemented in the direction of picking up new targets for therapeutic development. Future work in this discipline will involve developing successful or prospectively successful compounds to advanced level trials.
Future research work is expected to take a more open form that allows integration of research endeavors with public service. This is expected to increase public participation in the core of dementia research as a bid to increase awareness on the diseases while underscoring the role that research plays in stepping up to the challenges of dementia.
Current dementia and Alzheimer management don't take into account the different categories of patients. Sometimes every patient has a unique mental condition and that will require custom management. Mental conditions worsen with age. Therefore, patients are not always of the same age and custom dementia management is justified.
Current medical technology gives patients hope for custom dementia treatment. Accurate diagnosis for the same is also possible at the earliest known stage. Studies confirm that, mental patients can get assistance at an earlier stage. This way dementia management will be easy and patients instead of being study subjects with have a cure. Current medical technologies including genome sequencing and molecular documentations are able to bring out dementia cases at an individual level and as earlier as the first mild signs.
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There is a lot of information to learn when it comes to all the different stages in dementia. An excellent starting point for Research and the Future of Dementia information, would be to visit the following website at http://stagesofdementia.org.
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