TY - JOUR
T1 - Health Policy and Dementia
AU - Powell, Tia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Purpose of Review: The anticipated number of persons with dementia continues to grow, and the US has insufficiently planned to provide and pay for care for this large population. Recent Findings: A number of significant clinical trials aiming to prevent or cure dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, have not demonstrated success. Because of the lack of efficacious treatments, and the fact that brain changes associated with dementia may begin decades before symptoms, we can predict that efforts to cure or prevent dementia will not succeed in time for millions of people in the baby boomer generation. Summary: Because of the anticipated increase in people suffering with dementia in the coming years, US health policy must address major gaps in how to provide and pay for dementia care. Reliance on Medicaid and Medicare as currently structured will not sustain the necessary care, nor can families alone provide all necessary dementia care. Innovative forms of providing long-term care and paying for it are crucially needed.
AB - Purpose of Review: The anticipated number of persons with dementia continues to grow, and the US has insufficiently planned to provide and pay for care for this large population. Recent Findings: A number of significant clinical trials aiming to prevent or cure dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, have not demonstrated success. Because of the lack of efficacious treatments, and the fact that brain changes associated with dementia may begin decades before symptoms, we can predict that efforts to cure or prevent dementia will not succeed in time for millions of people in the baby boomer generation. Summary: Because of the anticipated increase in people suffering with dementia in the coming years, US health policy must address major gaps in how to provide and pay for dementia care. Reliance on Medicaid and Medicare as currently structured will not sustain the necessary care, nor can families alone provide all necessary dementia care. Innovative forms of providing long-term care and paying for it are crucially needed.
KW - Dementia
KW - Health policy
KW - Long-term care
KW - Long-term care insurance
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U2 - 10.1007/s11920-018-0868-0
DO - 10.1007/s11920-018-0868-0
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29387967
AN - SCOPUS:85041376631
SN - 1523-3812
VL - 20
JO - Current psychiatry reports
JF - Current psychiatry reports
IS - 1
M1 - 4
ER -