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New Guidelines to detect MCI, Alzheizmer's & Dementia
For the first time in 27 years, new guidelines have been published for the diagnosis of the most common type of dementia: Alzheimer’s. The initial diagnostic criteria for the disease were published by the Alzheimer’s Association and the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke in 1984. The new criteria and guidelines are the result of work that began two years ago, when three expert workgroups consisting of a total of more than 40 Alzheimer’s researchers and clinicians from around the globe began the in-depth process of reviewing the original criteria and deciding how they might be improved by incorporating research advances from the last three decades. Formation of the workgroups was spearheaded by the Alzheimer’s Association and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health.

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This article tells how the criteria are different along with the new guidelines. There is consensus that treating the disease before symptoms occur is what this new goal is about.

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Marie Fostino
Alzheimer's A Caretakers Journal
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