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Dementia confronting Vietnam: experts

Vietnam, ranking seventh among the 10 fastest aging countries, is facing an upward trend of chronic diseases, including dementia.
Vietnam, ranking seventh among the 10 fastest aging countries, is facingan upward trend of chronic diseases, including dementia.

Director of the Central Geriatrics Hospital Pham Thang pointed out thefact at a symposium on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia inHanoi on August 14.

Vietnamese and foreign experts citedstatistics of the World Health Organisation in 2012 as saying that therewere 35.6 million people living with dementia around the world, and upto 50 – 70 percent of them were suffered from Alzheimer’s.

Thenumber of dementia cases is predicted to hit 65.7 million by 2030 with58 percent living in low- and middle-income countries, and reach 115.4million and 70 percent, respectively by 2050.

The life quality ofthose having Alzheimer’s is relatively low and proportional to thestate of the disease, delegates noted.

At thesymposium, experts assessed the recovery of the cases while being underdifferent therapies and suggested the use of non-medicine ones.

They also stressed the need to monitor patients’ life quality andconsider this as an important criterion when assessing treatmentoutcome.-VNA
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