To such conclusion the British scientists.
Every sixth person in the course of life faced with senile dementia, as found by British scientists. Over the past 13 years the number of victims of dementia was doubled, due to increasing life expectancy and better diagnostics.
The researchers calculated that every sixth resident of the UK at the time of his death, will suffer from dementia or senile dementia. In 2001, the victims of this disease became 6.6 per cent, and in 2014 is 15.8 percent. In the UK alone, according to conservative estimates, currently, from senile dementia suffers 850,000 people, and by 2025 this number will grow to one million, and by 2050 to two million.
And still this statistic is shocking, because the medicine still cannot offer any method for the treatment of senile dementia or at least slow the disease. In science there is the understanding that dementia is caused by diseases that physically attacks the brain.
British statistics show that only 8% of victims of senile dementia die at home, and in the General population, this number is 21%. This gap is due to the fact that patients with dementia need 24-hour care, and relatives are often simply not able to provide it. That is why such patients often give specialized nursing home, and the last years of their life are extremely painful.
Some experts in the UK emphasize that patients with dementia do not allow yourself to prepare for departure, as it allowed other patients. However, everyone has the right to die the way he wants, and for the victims of senile dementia can not be treated as second-class citizens.
