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Increasing Dementia awareness, spotting early signs of Dementia and early intervention
15th World Congress on DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
November 21, 2022 | Webinar
Laura Ion
Selinus University of Sciences and Literature, Italy
Keynote : J Clin Psychiatry Cog Psychol
Abstract:
Considering Dementia, a single disease it isn’t quite an accurate approach as dementia is rather a wide collection of symptoms: in some cases, someone’s memory could be affected, in other cases along with memory being affected, people’ ability to think, to take decisions, to process, sort and organize information, communicate with others, are affected as well. The World Health Organization notes that more than 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, 9% of them being under 65 years old. More than 10 million new cases every year and this number is expected to rise to 78 million in 2030 up to 139 million in 2050. In terms of costs, in 2019, the total global cost of dementia was US$ 1.3 trillion while informal cares, family and friends spent on average 5 hours per day taking care of people with dementia. There is still no cure for dementia, but it is certain that early detection of symptoms is highly important, as some of these causes can be treated. The main concern is how to increase awareness among people and make early selfassessment a valuable tool, as a first step toward getting a specialized diagnose and treatment. The early selfassessment tool it aims to be a dementia alarming tool that leads the patient and his family to seek professional support for further investigation and proceed to early and on target intervention, including family training. The purpose of this work is to propose a dementia alarming tool as an early symptoms detector accessible to anyone and design a valuable on target family training program for the members providing day care for the dear ones living with dementia, as early detection of dementia symptoms and early intervention are considerably effective.
Recent Publications :
1. Laura Ion, “ The Will to Meaning and Values during Crisis. Values Crisis and the Crisis of the Will to Meaning”. Approach and Intervention published in The Journal of Communication and Behavioral Sciences, Vol.3 no.1 (2022).
2. Laura Ion, “The Connection between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury in Paediatric and Young Patients”, Therapeutic Guidelines and New Therapeutic Approaches published in the Journal of Psychology, Scientific Research, Vol.12 No.3, March 2021.
3. Laura Ion, ” Neurogenesis or the state of continuing creation of ourselves published in the Journal of The School of Advanced Education, Research and Accreditation, SAERA, Spain, May 2020.
Biography:
Laura Ion is a PhD student in Psychology at Selinus University of Sciences and Literature, Italy. She is an Associate Member within American Psychological Association and a Graduate Member within the British Psychological Society. She has published articles in the field of Psychology and Neuroscience in reputed Journals like Scientific Research- Psychology Journal and SAERA (School of Advanced Studies, Research and Accreditation, Spain).
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