An Australian developed cure for dementia??

I think, I hope, we do have a better understanding of how outcomes can be skewed by vested interests. Having said that we are also bloody good at focusssing on anything that will ultimately save money and hopefully lives. We were the first country in the world to mandate seat belts but do not think that was to primarily save lives. Without a seat belt drivers are likely to sustain a central flail chest injury causing an ICU stay of around six weeks. The government crunched the numbers........

This is the same thing, we know that dementia is a huge cost on the health care system so a ten million investment that mifpght save thirty....

And this is what the right in America do not “get”. Governments usually hate spending money, unless of course it is on big buildings they can plaster their names across, so they actually do pretty well at containing health care costs

 

IIRC it was more than a decade ago we had a GOP governor in NJ who was faced with dealing with escalating state government spending on healthcare for the uninsured because of the lack of affordable private sector healthcare. He crunched the numbers and came to the conclusion that it was cheaper to expand the State Medicaid program and enroll everyone who didn't have private sector healthcare than to continue paying the private sector ER's who were dealing with routine issues that a GP would normally take care of.

Yes, governments don't like spending more money than they have to because RESPONSIBLE politicians don't like to have to raise taxes.

 

Health care costs have increased dramatically, but so have the outcomes.

I retrieved some of the taxes I have paid very rapidly to the tune of about $20K, but 12 hours after dialing 000 (911 equivalent) I was having lunch at a hospital 100K away, alive and stented.

Not that long ago I wouldn't be here replying.

This cost is enormous and couldn't be maintained if it wasn't funded by the taxation system.

 

Hope you have recovered...were any of the nurses good sorts....oops Im being sexist ...thats not like me..
Tell me..I heard somewhere that any early indication of dementia is if you get the patient to draw the face of a clock and then write the numbers where they should be and then the hands for the time as it is then..
If anything is outside the circular face of the clock, then dementia is on the way....
Can you or any one else confirm that....

 

No sorry

 

Not sure about that one but GPs will test for early onset dementia. There's online cognitive tests as well. I've got my elderly dad to do them. My mums got dementia and he was in denial about it for so long and is now scared he's got it every time he forgets something.

 

I sometimes forget to back a horse and it wins, but I dont think thats dementia..I do know that when it runs 2nd I think Ive got seconditis....sorry for flippant...the subject is serious....