FULL TITLE: Meeting the Urgent Needs of People Living with Dementia Requires Addressing Existing Disparities in Care, and Ensuring Future Research Prioritizes Inclusivity and Real-World Studies – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
CONTEXT: Caring for people with dementia is a wide ranging topic and this article highlights the need for high quality research on not just the individual, but on the community, on key policies like transportation and at the society level – just being aware of what dementia is on a day to day level. Good to see the power of RWR included in the overall strategy being proposed by the authors
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1. “For more information on cookies visit: http://nas.edu/legal/privacy/index.html Meeting the Urgent Needs of People Living with Dementia Requires Addressing Existing Disparities in Care, and Ensuring Future Research Prioritizes Inclusivity and Real-World Studies News Release ”
2. ” February 23, 2021 WASHINGTON — The current body of evidence on dementia care does not reflect the experiences of diverse populations, including people of different races, ethnicities, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.”
3. “The report assesses the quality of the existing evidence about care for people living with dementia and their caregivers and recommends interventions for broad dissemination and implementation.”
4. “It is critical to build a strong evidence base on dementia care interventions, not only to better support patients and their care partners and caregivers but also to guide clinical care, insurance coverage decisions, and public health recommendations, the report says.”
5. ““People living with dementia, care partners, and caregivers deserve services, care, and supports that work and meet their unique needs,” said Eric B. Larson, senior investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, and chair of the committee that wrote the report.”