Padovani (Sin): "Demenze al centro G7 Salute, Ancona capitale europea per salute cervello’"

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(Adnkronos) - Il presidente dei neurologi ‘European academy of neurology e società italiana neurologia hanno voluto portate ad Ancona proprio la salute del cervello. Perchè dobbiamo lavorare tutti insieme’ con questo obiettivo.

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00:00The G7 has placed at the center of its work the theme of dementia in continuity with what

00:11has already been addressed in Japan in the previous edition.

00:15Italy, with Japan and the other Western countries, shares the fact that we have a population

00:20that is aging rapidly.

00:22It is estimated that in the next ten years, Italy will also be able to reach 30% of people

00:27over the age of 65.

00:29It is evident that in this context all the related pathologies become particularly relevant.

00:36And there is no doubt that dementia, as well as Alzheimer's disease, is one of those

00:41pathologies for which we are paying attention to our interventions today.

00:46Why?

00:47Because we still do not have a therapy or effective treatments, because once again we

00:53have to understand what the mechanisms are.

00:56Although it is true that in recent years we have understood much more, from the point

01:00of view of possible therapies.

01:04Among these, certainly some drugs that other agencies, not in Europe, have approved.

01:12There is the issue of prevention, and at the G7 we will talk about prevention of Alzheimer's

01:17disease and dementia, but there is also the issue of early diagnosis, that is, of that

01:23incredible progress that today allows us to be able to identify patients much at the beginning

01:30of their path of the disease, and that perhaps one day we will also be able to intercept,

01:36predict, when people are still not sick.

01:40This is because the numbers of dementia are increasing, they are increasing with the increase

01:46of aging, and because the costs are currently already very high and risk being much higher

01:53Today we are talking about about 23 billion euros, the annual expense for the management

02:00of the phenomenon of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and it is estimated that by 2050

02:06these costs may double.

02:09There is also a lot to do in terms of assistance, and there is no doubt that our country, Italy,

02:16is at the forefront, not only because of the universal health system that everyone still envies us,

02:22but also because this system, which is currently subject to maintenance, but also to interventions,

02:31is trying to combine sustainability with efficiency and health responses.

02:39And there is no doubt that on dementia, as well as other chronic diseases, the Ministry of Health,

02:45together with all the operators, are strongly intervening.

02:48So it is not surprising that at G7 we will talk about Alzheimer's disease, we will talk about strategies,

02:55we will talk about prevention, we will also talk about technology, and we will also talk about therapies.

03:01And on treatments, there is no doubt that our country will also contribute, from the point of view

03:07of research, and certainly at the forefront, from the point of view of scientific productivity,

03:13and sooner or later, also in Italy, we will be able, as we do today in China, in Japan, in Australia,

03:19in Great Britain and in the United States, to have access to drugs for the treatment of the disease.

03:26At G7, the European Academy of Neurologists, the Italian Society of Neurology, in coherence with the World Health Organization,

03:33wanted to bring the topic of brain health from Ancona, and we decided to make Ancona

03:39the European city for brain health.

03:43So Ancona becomes the point of reference of a new project that sees Italy, together with other countries,

03:52there are not many in the world that have adopted a manifesto, among them Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Finland,

04:01India recently, Denmark probably in the coming months.

04:05So the perception, the sensitivity and the awareness that we all have to work together for the health of the brain is growing.

Padovani (Sin): "Demenze al centro G7 Salute, Ancona capitale europea per salute cervello’"

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