Perspective on strengthening dementia prevention and control system: a comprehensive framework for national health
Bin Cong
,
Hengge Xie
,
Yongan Sun
,
Jingnian Ni
,
Jing Shi
,
Mingqing Wei
,
Fuyao Li
,
Huali Wang
,
Luning Wang
,
Bin Qin
,
Jing Cheng
,
Demin Han
,
Wei Xiao
,
Boli Zhang
,
Jinzhou Tian
,
on behalf of the Key Project Team of the Department of Medicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
1. Department of Pathogen Biology, Institute of Basic Medicine, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050017, China
2. Department of Geriatric Neurology, The Second Medical Center & National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
3. Department of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China
4. Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, National Center of Medicine (Brain Disorders), Beijing 100700, China
5. Institute for Brain and Cognitive Disorders, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, China
6. Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine/National Key Laboratory, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
7. Dementia Care and Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Peking University Institute of Mental Health (Sixth Hospital), Beijing 100191, China
8. Department of Neurology, The Second Medical Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
9. Department of Neurology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China
10. Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
11. Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China
12. Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process, Lianyungang 222001, China
13. State Key Laboratory of Component-based Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China
Bin Cong, Hengge Xie, Yongan Sun, Jingnian Ni, Jing Shi, Mingqing Wei, Fuyao Li, Huali Wang, Luning Wang, Bin Qin, Jing Cheng, Demin Han, Wei Xiao, Boli Zhang, Jinzhou Tian, on behalf of the Key Project Team of the Department of Medicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Perspective on strengthening dementia prevention and control system: a comprehensive framework for national health.
Front. Med., 2025, 19 (5) : 865-870 DOI:10.1007/s11684-025-1154-2
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