Newswise — The number of people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s or dementia is expected to triple by 2050, and the latest research from the Alzheimer’s Association shows that half of medical providers are not prepared to care for them.
Now, new recommendations from a National Institutes of Health working group on dementia call for more evidence-based workforce training to meet the growing demands for dementia care.
The recommendations, which were recently made available open access in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society, are designed to guide future research and training at institutions of higher education that train all levels of the health care workforce.
In Georgia, there could be as many as 250,000 people with mild to moderate dementia, according to University of Georgia professor Toni Miles, who served on the working group.
Miles studies dementia and…
