More than 55 million people globally are estimated to suffer from some form of dementia, and as life expectancy increases, the number of people suffering from dementia is expected to double by the year 2050. Although these are very serious diseases with a great impact on both the individual and their relatives, in Swedish dementia care, there is still a lack of both cures and well-functioning medicines that slow down the diseases, which means great challenges for health and social care. Today, research is heavily dependent on stable and comprehensive funding in the work to achieve the breakthroughs required to be able to deliver ground-breaking solutions to slow down and cure dementia. The Swedish government has therefore tasked the National
As part of the work, Anna Tenje, Minister for Older People and
“We are honored and incredibly happy that the government chooses to pay attention to our important research in the field of dementia with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. As the standard of living rises and healthcare improves, the average life expectancy increases, and thus also the risk of dementia-related diseases, which places very high demands on state-funded care. The need for more effective drugs that can slow down the course of the disease, and not least preventive treatments that could prevent the disease from breaking out, is very great. Anything that can facilitate our work to develop new medicines is important and I look forward to seeing the results of the work that the government and the National
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease, which is a collective term for various conditions in which the brain's nerve cells gradually deteriorate and eventually die. Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, around 60-70 percent of all dementia cases stem from this disease and in
The Swedish Alzheimer's Foundation is driving the support of research into dementia diseases and is the fundraising organization in
”We saw that large resources are required to be able to solve the puzzle of Alzheimer's disease and that the basic academic research needed to be supplemented with more clinical and patient-oriented research. We therefore took the initiative to form the research foundation AlzeCure, which now operates as the pharmaceutical company
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