Abstracts by key term: Early diagnosis
Demographic change with an increase in the number of very old people, increasing public knowledge about dementia and increasing expectations of medical interventions from relatives and those affected will increase the demand for options for early diagnosis and therapy for memory impairments in old age. While currently a documented diagnosis only occurs in the 3rd year of dementia due to stigmatization, in the future an earlier diagnosis will probably occur in the 1st and 2nd year of the disease. In contrast to extensive further developments in the field of diagnostics, the therapeutic options are still limited. The increasing norm of living alone will often jeopardize the goal often expressed by older people of being able to provide care in their own home when dementia occurs in the future.