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Article
Dementia – the next impending epidemic knocking on our door – are we ready?
Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)
Publication Date
7-1-2013
Document Type
Editorial
Disciplines
Abstract
Late-onset dementias are life-shortening diseases of largely unknown cause. Predictions of the number of persons living with dementia by 2050 have spawned alarming headlines forecasting a “tsunami” of dementia cases that will overwhelm families and health care systems and impose unbearable economic burdens [Whalley].
Citation Information
Ismail A. Khatri and Mohammad Wasay. "Dementia – the next impending epidemic knocking on our door – are we ready?" (2013) p. 3 - 4 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mohammad_wasay/135/