Teaching medical students about dementia: A brief review

Underdeveloped nations have the largest absolute number of the world's elderly population. Approximately 10.7% of the Brazilian population comprises aged individuals. Aging populations are associated with a higher incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as dementia. Demented individuals...

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Autores principales: Jacinto, Alessandro Ferrari, Leite, Ananda Ghelfi Raza, Neto, José Luiz de Lima, Vidal, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira, Bôas, Paulo José Fortes Villas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2015
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Views & Reviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642015DN92000002
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author Jacinto, Alessandro Ferrari
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description Underdeveloped nations have the largest absolute number of the world's elderly population. Approximately 10.7% of the Brazilian population comprises aged individuals. Aging populations are associated with a higher incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as dementia. Demented individuals place a high burden of care on healthcare systems and family members. General practitioners should be able to diagnose the most common elderly diseases such as dementia since they act as gatekeepers to specialized care. In Brazil, many medical students work as general practitioners upon graduating. The present study shows some scenarios of medical schools worldwide, including Brazilian, regarding teaching on dementia.
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spelling pubmed-56193462017-12-06 Teaching medical students about dementia: A brief review Jacinto, Alessandro Ferrari Leite, Ananda Ghelfi Raza Neto, José Luiz de Lima Vidal, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Bôas, Paulo José Fortes Villas Dement Neuropsychol Views & Reviews Underdeveloped nations have the largest absolute number of the world's elderly population. Approximately 10.7% of the Brazilian population comprises aged individuals. Aging populations are associated with a higher incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as dementia. Demented individuals place a high burden of care on healthcare systems and family members. General practitioners should be able to diagnose the most common elderly diseases such as dementia since they act as gatekeepers to specialized care. In Brazil, many medical students work as general practitioners upon graduating. The present study shows some scenarios of medical schools worldwide, including Brazilian, regarding teaching on dementia. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC5619346/ /pubmed/29213949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642015DN92000002 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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