Title: Dementia and Mortality: A Nationwide Registry-Based Study.
Meeting ID: 626 9127 5139
This thesis describes the time trends of incidence, prevalence, mortality, and causes of death in people with dementia in an entire national population. It identified people with dementia as a vulnerable group emphasized by a markedly higher mortality. Moreover, it underpins that dementia conditions should be perceived as serious and fatal brain diseases, as the five-year mortality is largely similar to that in cancer and acute ischemic heart disease. Hopefully, this change in perception of dementia as a fatal disease should result in more investments in research, including continuing thesearch for efficacious, disease modifying drugs, and in better health care for people with dementia.
Assessment Committee:
- Frans Boch Waldorff, Professor, MD, PhD, The Research Unit and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (Chairman).
- Maria Eriksdotter, Professor, MD, PhD, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sci-ences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and Theme Aging, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden.
- René Ernst Nielsen, Professor, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, and Depart-ment of Psychiatry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Supervisors:
- Gunhild Waldemar, Professor, MD, DMSc, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Rig hospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Principal Supervisor).
- Thomas Munk Laursen, Professor, PhD, The National Centre for Register-based Research, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Ane Nørgaard, MD, PhD, Danish Dementia Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark