World Alzheimer Report 2022 – Life after diagnosis: Navigating treatment, care and support

Alzheimer’s Disease International

He is also Co-Director of the Quebec Network for Research on Aging and is the Academic Lead of the Dementia Education Program of the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. [...] […] For families in the low- wife and caregiver, Canada (Chapter 3) est income bracket, abandoning their family member with dementia at a public hospital may seem to them the most “I was met with a lot of resistance and resentment from affordable and manageable solution to long-term care.” my siblings, none of whom had processed the reality of the diagnosis and the colossal changes that came with. [...] We see over and over again in the report that voices of ‘real people’ living with dementia, their carers, the best way to do this is through a care plan that describes and care professionals, to bring further authenticity and the type of support an individual needs, how this support to ground the report in reality. [...] Providing carers with essential dementia educa- ring at each stage (Part II) and the specificities of different tion and helping them to develop a ‘toolbox’ of knowledge types of dementias (Part VI); delving into the impact of and practical tips to better understand and cope with the diagnosis on people living with dementia, their carers, rel- changes ahead is a subject of many expert essays. [...] Person-centred, gender-sensitive and culturally Similarly, 75% of professional (72% in higher-income coun- appropriate care tries and 82% in lower-income countries) indicated they regularly include either the carer and/or the person living Sixty-four percent of people living with dementia indicated with dementia in the development of the care plan.