TY - JOUR
AU - Mukaetova-Ladinska, Elizabeta B.
AB - Age and Ageing 2007; 36: 605–606  The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. doi:10.1093/ageing/afm144 All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org Treating dementia: will the NICE guidance 2006 change our clinical practice? Dementia is increasingly becoming a target of major attention However, we must not overlook that by using a probabilis- and concern not only for clinicians but also for society and tic and inductive model, the methodology underlying the political policy makers. Its devastating individual, familial and NICE recommendations has great limitations when applied social impacts, together with the expected rise in prevalence to individual cases in a routine clinical setting. Indeed, it in the next few years, will challenge the limited resources of could be imprudent to use a rigid standardised approach in health care systems in Western societies [1]. In the absence clinical medicine where the complexity and variety of cases of short term curative treatment(s), more investment and require a thorough approach to identify all possible factors reorganisation of both health and care services is mandatory in the specific pathological process (Figure 1). For example, to support both the rapidly increasing number of dementia the 
TI - Treating dementia: will the NICE guidance 2006 change our clinical practice?
JO - Age and Ageing
DO - 10.1093/ageing/afm144
DA - 2007-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/treating-dementia-will-the-nice-guidance-2006-change-our-clinical-P1KXi8kAIU
SP - 605
EP - 606
VL - 36
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -