A Recommended "Dementia Prevention and Treatment Action Plan" Task List for China: WHO Global Action Perspective

Abstract

As a major public health problem, dementia has attracted great global attention. Early detection and interventions targeting high-risk people of cognitive impairment, can help prevent the onset of dementia and postpone its progression. The rapid increase in the number of elderly people with dementia in China poses challenges in terms of preventive care, health promotion, social support and research innovation. So it is essential to develop a national task list of dementia prevention and treatment action plan, yet it is still in an exploratory stage. In this paper, on the basis of the review of the WHO "Global Action Plan for Public Health Response to Dementia 2017—2025", we proposed a list of tasks of "Dementia Prevention and Treatment Action Plan" for China from the perspective of WHO's global action according to current China's policies and practices and the focuses in dementia prevention and treatment and actual resources, which covers risk factor intervention, person-centred care, social support, information system construction, innovative research and science and technology transformation. It is expected that this action plan will inform relevant dementia prevention and treatment decisions as well as practical responses.

Keywords

• dementia|alzheimer disease|national health programs|health services for the elder people|action plan|task list