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Dementia: things will get worse if we do not act
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In their editorial published in CMAJ, Drs. Stall, Tardif and Sinha presciently highlighted that the $50 million in federal funding over 5 years will likely be inadequate to achieve the stated goals of Canada’s first national dementia strategy. This has proven true at the front lines of clinical care. As a clinician providing hospital care for people with dementia, I have been unable to detect any meaningful improvements — rather, things are getting worse, especially in acute care. Analyses by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) show that when older adults living with dementia are admitted to hospital, they are 50% more likely to experience hospital harm and have twice the length of stay of people without dementia. Although dementia once accounted for one-third of alternate level of care (ALC) days, CIHI estimates that this impact has grown and dementia now accounts for almost half of ALC days.
Frank J. Molnar
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University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa Hospital Research
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