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Dementia in developing countries
— a consensus statement from the 10/66 Dementia Research Group | | Corporate Author | 10/66 Dementia Research Group |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 1, January 2000 |
| Pages | pp 14-20 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Research Reviews ; Conference proceedings ; Developing countries ; International. |
| Annotation | Less than one-tenth of all population-based research into dementia is directed towards the two-thirds or more of cases who live in developing countries. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group has been formed to redress this imbalance, encouraging active research collaboration between centres in different developing countries and between developed and developing countries. The 10/66 group consisted initially of researchers attending a symposium on dementia research in developing countries, held at the 1998 Alzheimer's Disease International Conference. They noted a growing interest in this area, with an urgent need for more research: quantifying prevalence and incidence, exploring regional variations in international collaboration using harmonised methodologies, describing care arrangements for people with dementia, quantifying the impact of caregivers and evaluating the effectiveness of any newly implemented services. Methodological problems need to be overcome, particularly the development of culture- and education-fair dementia diagnostic procedures. Good quality research can generate awareness, pioneer service development, and influence policy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000419003 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3A:6KC: 6M: 7B: 72 |
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