Australian Government Department of Health

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Introduction
Dementia is one of the most significant problems among the aged population of
Australia. According to a report, almost 400000 people are suffering from this disease.
Dementia is the second leading health condition for the death of women in the Australian
context. This condition can be observed in 1 out of 10 people in Australia. Dementia is
caused by a different variety of illnesses and injuries of the brain. Memory, thinking capacity,
language, judgment, and behaviors of a person are affected by this disease. The dementia is
ranged from mild to severe range. The disease is responsible for different other mental
illnesses and disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, vascular
dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and mixed dementia. The stakeholders should aim at the
needs assessment, planning, facilitation, and coordination. This essay will focus on the
population of the dementia patients in Australia and the effectiveness of interventions taken
by the stakeholders to prevent the impact of dementia on the target population.
Discussion
Population
According to a report, 354000 people were affected until 2016. The statistic has
shown that approximately 40% of the affected population has been increased from
2006(www.aihw.gov.au. ,2020). According to the report, 74% of females are suffered from
dementia, whereas 65% of older people (who are aged more than 65 years) have dementia.
On the contrary, only 65% of the affected population get care provision for more than 40
hours per week. 60% of the carer who support dementia patients are working for less than
five years. As per the report of Dementia Australia, 459,000 Australians will have dementia
in 2020, and the number can be increased to 590,000 by 2028
(agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au. ,2020). The situation is predicted as worse as the number
of dementia patients will be increased to 1,076,000 by 2058. Each day at least 250 people

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join the affected population. Thus the number of every day affected people will be increased
to 318 people per day. Now, the reports are conveying that 5 out of 10 people aged over 85
years will be affected by dementia. Internationally approximately 50 million people are
suffering from this condition. The number might be increased to 131.5 million by
2050(www.abs.gov.a.,2020). Among the Aboriginals and Torres islanders, the rate of
incidence of this disease is more than the non-indigenous people. Prevalence of dementia risk
factors are prominent in the indigenous community; for example, tobacco smoking, diabetes,
and cardiovascular diseases are higher among them than pther
communities(Dementia.org.au.,2020). The younger people(aged from 45 to 69 years) of
indigenous population are also affected by the disease. The most common sub-type of
dementia in the aboriginal community is vascular dementia (at 15.1%). Socio behavioural
risk factors for dementia are prominent among the aboriginal people. The social factors like
poor access to essential commodities, remotely located habitate and social exclusion are
related to occurrence of dementia among the indigenous community(Deckers et al., 2018).
Lack of formal education and a declined rate of consciousness are some of the most prevalent
social factors among the aboriginal people. Physical inactivity among the aboriginal people
with a low BMI rate is one of the most prominent physiological factors among the
population. In research on the prevalence of dementia on the indigenous population, the
researchers also emphasized on Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the grew
up places of participants(Radford et al., 2018). Social networks and engagement, engagement
in physical activities and functional disability are considered as the comorbid factors for the
population.
Stakeholders
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