in 2019, canada launched its national dementia strategy, joining a list of countries around the world who are rising to the challenge issued in the world health organization’s global action plan on the public health response to dementia (2017–2025) . the numbers underscore the need: in canada alone, more than 500,000 people are living with dementia – and that number is expected to approach one million in the next 10 years – placing enormous burden on the healthcare system, but more importantly, on the people and families who are affected by dementias, such as alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause and type of dementia.
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research shows that it is the build-up of these proteins that is toxic to the brain, a process that can begin up to 20 years before the mild cognitive impairment , or mci phase of the disease, when symptoms first appear.
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