The Minister of Health will unveil a plan to fight neurodegenerative diseases on Thursday. This comprises 96 measures and intends in particular to structure an active policy towards carers.
With 850,000 French people with Alzheimer’s disease, and 3 million people directly or indirectly affected by the disease in France, the plan to fight neurodegenerative diseases, which is to be presented this Thursday by Marisol Touraine, is eagerly awaited. The provisional version, unveiled Europe1, has 96 measures.
The new Alzheimer’s plan opens up to other diseases
Lasting five years (2015-2020), this fourth plan is intended to be more transversal by encompassing several neurodegenerative diseases, the details of which still remain a mystery. In addition to Alzheimer’s patients, it will therefore concern people in France with Parkinson’s disease (more than 150,000) and multiple sclerosis (around 80,000). An important point for patient associations in this period of savings in the field of Health.
“This is a very important point that can have a direct impact on the distribution of funding for this plan. If we expand it, we must necessarily broaden the funding, ”recently underlined in the press Marie-Odile Desana, president of France Alzheimer.
Four major themes
In detail, this plan is based on four major priority areas. The first concerns the care and support of patients throughout life throughout the territory. On this topic, Europe1 reveals that the plan intends to structure and implement an active policy aimed at family caregivers such as family caregivers.
Second axis of this plan: the adaptation of society to the challenges of neurodegenerative diseases in order to act on the daily repercussions of these pathologies.
Third axis: the development and coordination of research on neurodegenerative diseases. Here, the new plan actually intends to encourage researchers to work together in order, ultimately, to optimize the care and daily life of patients.
Last axis: the governance of the future plan to make it “a real tool for innovation in the management of public policies and democracy in health”.
“We want everyone’s specific needs to be respected in the diversity of pathologies included in this plan. For us, the top priority remains the creation of local respite structures for families, such as day care and temporary accommodation, ”commented Marie-Odile Desana.
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