The president of the Romanian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Professor Dr. Gabriel Prada, proposes the creation of a national network of geriatrics.
Access to medical services for seniors suspected of developing a form of dementia is much easier when the family or person in question decides to go to the consultation – say doctors, who attended the national conference today in Bucharest. dedicated to the condition of Alzheimer’s.
For Romania, the president of the Romanian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Professor Gabriel Prada, proposes the creation of a national network of geriatrics.
Gabriele Prada: We now have a passive approach system, that is, the medical system waits for the patient, when he feels bad, to go to the doctor’s consultation. Many patients are lost in the early stages of the disease. On the other hand, the old man doesn’t feel bad. He believes that the changes are normal due to age – it is normal to have memory problems, because he is 85 or 80, it is normal to have other changes and then these diagnoses of disorder, of dementia, let’s say, are lost in the early stages, when you can do something with greatly reduced costs.
One in 10 people over the age of 65 suffer from some form of dementia, and by the age of 85, nearly half of older people face a condition of this type, experts say.
