Design of a comprehensive Alzheimer's disease clinic and research center in Spain to meet critical patient and family needs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects people worldwide, and the prevalence is increasing as the population ages. There is an international effort to understand the biology of AD to develop primary and secondary prevention strategies, and to develop effective therapeutic interventions for individuals who are already symptomatic. One of the critically important pieces of all national plans to address AD is the call for the development of service models to deliver quality, effective care based on the best evidence available.

Methods

We describe one type of care model developed by the Fundacio ACE, Institut Catala de Neurociencies Aplicades (Fundacio ACE, Barcelona, Spain) that integrates diagnosis, therapy, follow-up care, daycare, and a day hospital, and does so in the c

SUBMITTER: Boada M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3951687 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature