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Care for dementia in Spain: the need for a nationwide strategy

✍ Scribed by Raimundo Mateos; Manuel Franco; Manuel Sánchez

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
68 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Demographics

Spain is one of the most aged countries in the world. Of a population of 46.7 million, 7.7 million (16.7%) are 65 or older and of them, 28.45% is 80 or older. By 2050, these percentages will be 30.8% and 11.1%, respectively (IMSERSO, 2009). Although rural areas account for only one in four elderly people, population dispersion in some areas of Spain has become a problem when it comes to organising social and health care services in these very aged communities.

Epidemiology

The important variation in the prevalence of dementia found in epidemiological studies (5.2-14.5%), apart from being attributable to method-related differences, may well reflect real differences, particularly in the case of vascular dementia (del Barrio et al., 2005). Between 400 000 and 600 000 persons are estimated to suffer from dementia and over half of them would not be diagnosed as such or would not be receiving a specific treatment (Gascon-Bayarri et al., 2007).

From a sociological standpoint, care for dementialike other chronic diseases that lead to old age dependent disability-is already perceived as a public health issue in the media.

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