World Alzheimer's Day 2001
Diagnosing dementia: the first step to help
The theme for World Alzheimer's Day in 2001 centred on the importance of having a diagnosis of dementia. Naming a person's symptoms helps to demystify or destigmatise their condition and may also resolve their anxiety, as well as that of their family. It can maximise a person's quality of life, give a person a greater chance of benefiting from existing treatments, allows the person with dementia and their family access to resources and information, and provides more time to plan for the future.
Read the World Alzheimer's Day bulletin for 2001
2001 PDF: 133KB / 4 pages
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Where next?
- Find out what happened on WAD in 2001
- Sharing the news - George and Dorothy Brown describe why having a diagnosis was important to them
