TY - JOUR
TI - Dementia as a contemporary challenge for providing care for the aging populations
AU - Klich-Rączka, Alicja
TI - Dementia as a contemporary challenge for providing care for the aging populations
AB - 
	Dementia occurs with a frequency of 10–12% in the entire geriatric population and 33–50% in people over 90 years of age. The most common cause of dementia are: Alzheimer’s disease, rarely vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s disease with dementia. There are no medicaments to prevent dementia and effectively treat it. The treatment only slows the progression and improves the quality of life of the patient and caregiver. Taking care of a patient with dementia burdens the caregiver. As the disease progresses, care time extends even to the entire day. Over 90% of caregivers in Poland are family carers. Over 90% of patients stay in their own home until death. The cost of care is high and increases with the duration of the disease. In the case of agitated patients, the cost is higher. Institutional care is more expensive than home care. In Poland, there are no good system solutions in care for a dementia patient. Caregivers do not receive proper support from the government and subordinate units. 

	Przygotowanie do wydania elektronicznego finansowane w ramach umowy 637/P-DUN/2019 ze środków Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.

	
VL - 2019
IS - Tom 17, Numer 1
PY - 2019
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 16
EP - 25
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.19.003.11299
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/artykul/dementia-as-a-contemporary-challenge-for-providing-care-for-the-aging-populations
KW - Alzheimer’s disease
KW - behavioral disorders
KW - dementia
KW - care
KW - care costs / choroba Alzheimera
KW - koszty opieki
KW - opieka
KW - otępienie
KW - zaburzenia zachowania