China Published 丨 National Health and Health Commission: About 10 million of patients with Alzheimer's disease in the age of 60 and above in my country

China Net, September 20th, on September 20, the National Health Commission held a press conference on the progress and results of the aging work and results since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of my country. The most important type of dementia is about 15 million dementia patients 60 and above, of which 10 million are Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's disease has a great impact on the health and quality of life in our country.

Wang Haidong introduced that the country attaches great importance to the construction of the dementia prevention and control system, and the health promotion action of health China will set up "a decrease in the increase in the prevalence of dementia at the age of 65 and over the age of 65 and above".

In recent years, my country has strengthened knowledge propaganda and organized preventive intervention. Printing and issuing the core information of prevention intervention, preparing the core tips of the family care, the production of popular science popularization videos of dementia prevention, and extensive publicity and education. Organize 15 provinces to carry out pilot work for the elderly (dementia) prevention and intervention. In the 1672 urban and rural communities across the country, the psychological care projects for the elderly were launched, and 580,000 elderly people provided a psychological and cognitive assessment of the elderly, and conducted classified intervention and referral services. Guide to carry out the public welfare operation of the yellow bracelet to prevent the loss of the elderly.

When deploying the basic public health services in 2022, the National Health and Health Commission clearly stated that all localities should carry out the initial screening service of the elderly cognitive function in accordance with the actual situation, and guide them to the higher -level medical and health institutions for the elderly with abnormalities.

In addition, in the pilot work of my country's vocational education in the pilot work of the "Academic Certificate+Vocational Skills Level Certificate" system, the professional skills level certificate of dementia care for the elderly care of the elderly is included in the pilot. I think this will effectively promote the development of care services for elderly dementia patients. At present, more than 40,000 people have obtained this certificate.

"In the next step, the National Health and Health Commission will further strengthen the prevention and control of elderly dementia such as science popularization, prevention intervention, and early diagnosis and early treatment. Tomorrow is the 29th World Alzheimer's Day. In the propaganda, prevention and intervention of Hemie's disease, the elderly who hoped to suffer from Alzheimer's disease got more care and care. "Wang Haidong said.

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