NASEM Report: Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America - A Decadal Survey of Behavioral and Social Science Research
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have released a report detailing the path forward for the next 10 years of research on dementia in the behavioral and social sciences. NASEM is also holding a virtual public release event for the report on August 4 from 2-3pm ET.
The NASEM report recommends that research prioritize improving the lives of people affected by dementia and of their caregivers, rectifying disparities, developing innovations that can improve quality of care and social supports, easing the economic costs of dementia, and pursing advances in researchers’ ability to study dementia.
The report also says research will be most effective if it is coordinated to avoid redundant studies, ensures findings can be implemented in clinical and community settings, and takes policy and socio-economic implications into account throughout the course of a study. Funders of dementia-related research should incentivize these approaches and others in their guidelines for awarding research grants.
The decadal survey was supported in part by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
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