| Revista: | Revista médica de Chile |
| Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
| Número de sistema: | 000454764 |
| ISSN: | 0034-9887 |
| Autores: | Godoy, Juan A1 Ríos, Carola2 Venegas, Pía3 López, Carolina4 Alvarez, José Luis2 Labbé, Tomás P5 Ramírez, Camila1 Ríos, Juvenal A6 |
| Instituciones: | 1CDS-Diagnóstico, Santiago de Chile. Chile 2MindCareLab, Santiago de Chile. Chile 3Ministerio de Salud, Departamento de Enfermedades No Transmisibles, Santiago de Chile. Chile 4Cámara Chilena de la Construcción, Mutual de Seguridad, Santiago de Chile. Chile 5Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Santiago de Chile. Chile 6Universidad San Sebastián, Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia, Santiago de Chile. Chile |
| Año: | 2020 |
| Periodo: | Jul |
| Volumen: | 148 |
| Número: | 7 |
| Paginación: | 1018-1024 |
| País: | Chile |
| Idioma: | Español |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Aplicado, descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | The increase of the elderly population with a significant load of non-communicable diseases, accelerates pathological aging and increases the risk of dementia, generating a huge health, social and economic cost for any country. Dementia does not have an effective treatment yet, therefore, the focus must remain on prevention and early diagnosis. The early stages of dementia are known as mild cognitive impairment; at this stage is still possible to mitigate the progression of the disease, however, health systems worldwide face difficulties to provide universal access to health services, due to a lack of specialists and geographical distances, interfering with the access to healthcare centers. In this scenario, WHO urged countries to implement strategies to democratize and to expand the reach of health institutions. In this document, we briefly review the global and local situation of dementias and discuss some attempts to control their progression by using revolutionary digital tools. We believe the focus should be on the population that is just beginning to show cognitive impairment |
| Disciplinas: | Medicina |
| Palabras clave: | Psiquiatría, Neurología, Telemedicina, Enfermedad de Alzheimer, Disfunción cognitiva, Demencia |
| Keyword: | Psychiatry, Neurology, Telemedicine, Alzheimer disease, Cognitive dysfunction, Dementia |
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