Crete launches Greece’s first repeat dementia prevalence study

A caller technological study connected dementia prevalence successful mountainous Crete will statesman connected May 18 successful the Municipality of Anogeia, marking 20 years since the area’s archetypal large survey connected the condition.

Researchers picture it arsenic the archetypal repetition dementia prevalence study ever conducted successful Greece, giving it important technological value. Findings are expected to lend to nationalist wellness planning, aboriginal prevention strategies, and amended support services for patients and families.

The research, titled “The Prevalence of Dementia successful Mountainous Crete,” will analyse however dementia rates and patterns person evolved implicit two decades, while besides supporting the improvement of improved prevention and aged attraction policies.

Four researchers specializing successful science and κοινωνικά work will behaviour door-to-door interviews crossed Anogeia with residents aged implicit 65, utilizing a structured questionnaire. The study is expected to past astir 20 days.

The archetypal Anogeia study, carried retired 20 years ago, was among Greece’s largest dementia surveys and focused connected a upland colonisation with a traditional manner and chiseled κοινωνικά characteristics.

Scientists enactment that dementia remains 1 of the large nationalist wellness challenges of the 21st century, affecting memory, concentration, language, thinking, and judgment. While astir communal successful radical implicit 65, it tin besides look earlier.

The task is led by the Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders successful collaboration with the Hellenic Mediterranean University’s Department of Social Work and the Municipality of Anogeia’s κοινωνικά services. Coordination is overseen by Dr. Vasiliki Pattakou-Parasyri.

A caller study by the federation noted chapeau the fig of radical surviving with dementia successful Greece is expected to emergence to 334,109 by 2050, up from 236,473 past year, accounting for 3.79% of the country’s population, compared with 2.38% past year. [Kathimerini, AMNA]