Association urges draft of basic act for dementia

SUPPORT NEEDED: Many issues are associated with dementia, such as financial fraud, which cannot be handled by just one department, TADA chairperson Hsu Wen-chuin said By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source The Taiwan Alzheimer’s Disease Association (TADA) yesterday urged the Executive Yuan to draft a Dementia Basic Act to improve comprehensive care for people with dementia.The association invited healthcare workers, academics, social welfare group members, people with dementia and their family members to a news conference in Taipei yesterday, to express their wish for a dedicated law.According to statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2024, the prevalence of dementia among people aged 65 or older was about 8 percent, meaning that one in every nine e