We are delighted to announce that Professor June Andrews FRCN will be speaking at the Future of Medicine – The Role of Doctors in 2025 event on 19th May 2016
Professor Andrews is the Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chief Nursing Officers of the UK. She has also been recognised with the prestigious Robert Tiffany International Award and the Founders Award of the British American Project. She headed the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, and directed the Centre for Change and Innovation within the Scottish Government in addition to her career in the NHS. She advises health departments and service providers around the world and is the author of Dementia; the One-Stop Guide.
Professor Andrews session at the event “The future of dementia.” aims to inform and generate discussion about the future of the disorder. The number of people affected by dementia is expected to double in the next twenty years. It costs more than cancer, stroke and heart disease together. Research for some time has shown that people fear it more than cancer. More recent research indicates that men and women appear to have significantly different views about dementia, which might affect future policy. Anxiety about the cost of dementia to families and individuals explains some of the anxiety. It is difficult to buy Long Term Conditions insurance because the cost of future care is difficult to predict. One difference between cancer and dementia is that with cancer, the NHS will care for the patient, but with dementia they may have to sell their home to pay for care. In the absence of euthanasia or a pandemic, the increase in people affected will increase with the ageing population. In spite of some encouraging news about better management of vascular disease, and hard work going into prevention and medication, the future doctor is going to have to support increasing numbers of people with dementia at home, along with their ageing carers.
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