With more than 6 million individuals living with dementia in the United States, 11
million family caregivers, and a majority of persons with dementia ultimately residing
in an assisted living community or nursing home,
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providing quality dementia care across disease stages and settings is a public health
imperative. Family caregivers are called on to provide extensive assistance to relatives
with dementia, long-term care staff typically lack sufficient knowledge to most effectively
attend to residents’ cognitive and psychosocial challenges, and optimal models of
dementia care often involve providers and services that are not effectively incorporated
into the health care delivery system.
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Thus, there is an immediate need to dramatically change how we care for all people
living with dementia and support their caregivers. But how?To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Footnotes
This work was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health under Award U54AG063546 [which funds the NIA Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory]. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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