19. Need for care ‘much of the time’ independently attributable to different health conditions Condition Prevalence Adjusted Prevalence ratio PAF Major Depression 1.5% 2.0 2 % 3 or more physical illnesses 9.9% 1.9 23% Stroke 7.8% 2.5 10/66 Dementia 10.8% 17.8 65%
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1 DALY = the loss of the equivalent of one year of full health Enables comparison of impact of disorders that cause early death but little disability (eg. drowning or measles) with those that do not cause death but do cause disability (e.g. cataract causing blindness) It combines YLL (years of life lost) due to deaths and YLD (years lived with disability) for equivalent healthy years of life lost through living in states of less than full health for cases of disease and injury incident
The prevalence of 10/66 dementia varied between 5·6% and 11·7% by site, whereas that of DSM-IV dementia was much lower ( 0.4% - 6.4 ). However, the false positive rate, which varied between 1% and 10% across regions and levels of education, might be one factor accounting for the higher prevalence of 10/66 dementia.
A high proportion of people needed care in particular in the Latin American sites.
population attributable fractions = represent the proportion of needing much care which could be avoided if depression, physical illnesses or dementia could be removed as a problem from these populations. And it is two thirds in the case of dementia.
What was found was that on the basis of empirical research, dementia was overwhelmingly the most important independent contributor to disability for elderly people in countries with low and middle incomes. And given the societal costs associated with disability, which are enormous, chronic diseases of the brain and mind deserve increased prioritisation.