Dementia is a neglected noncommunicable disease and leading cause of death

Arthurton, Lewis, Barbarino, Paola, Anderson, Robert, Schlaepfer, Benjamin, Salehi, Naz and Knapp, Martin ORCID: 0000-0003-1427-0215 (2025) Dementia is a neglected noncommunicable disease and leading cause of death. Nature Reviews Neurology, 21. 63–64. ISSN 1759-4758

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Abstract

Dementia is largely excluded from discussion of noncommunicable diseases, which limits its inclusion in health policies and allocation of resources — yet it is already a leading cause of mortality and its effects are set to increase. Alzheimer’s Disease International calls for changes in policies to address the effects of dementia now and in the future

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 Springer Nature Limited
Divisions:	Care Policy and Evaluation Centre Health Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2025 10:57
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2025 12:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126927

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